This is actually one of the reasons I would love a faster Internet. But for new games, I can usually pre-load to play on release day (speaking of which I believe Skyrim is calling...), and other games I usually pick up only on sales.
Yes and no. I think LOTRO actually made lots more money going free-to-play, but I'm not sure how well it did before hand. Also, I know Valve said something about noticing massive profit uptakes after a game went F2P, pretty sure he was talking about TF2. I think companies use it to boost player count, after everyone who is going to buy the game has done so (usually giving those players some sort of advantage so they don't feel ripped-off - usually getting pay-for content free). It seems to work pretty well as a model, actually: players who want up-front payment end up getting it, everyone else can play for free later but needs to pay micro-transactions to get some stuff the first players got as a one-time payment.
10Mb/sec is pretty fast. Hell, I only have 1.5Mb/sec at home and that is almost as fast as I really need (although not when shared.) I'd certainly upgrade to much faster if I could (100Mb/sec would be amazing), but most people really don't need more than 10Mb/s. Unless you do lots of, um, downloading "Linux ISOs" off Bittorrent or something, or for professional reasons, most people don't need faster.
Actually, TFA even makes that point. People in rural areas (I'm semi-rural) would love fiber, but it doesn't get to them. People in urban areas, who could get fiber, don't need it. Yet, I should note. Eventually, of course, fiber is the way of the future and everyone should be able to get it standard, but that day is still a ways off.
You do not know what the fuck you're talking about. No matter how you interpret the infinitesimal amount of information you have on the matter, your advocacy of piracy directly prevents me from doing what I love and providing for other talented musicians
Oh, now who doesn't know what the fuck their talking about? Point out where I "advocated piracy" in my post. Oh wait, I didn't. No, I am sick of the RIAA and compatriots bullshit, that is all. I haven't stolen your music, and I haven't advocated anyone else to do so. I'd tell them to read your post and make up their minds whether they want to support you afterwards.
I can't comment on your musical skills, but you might want to take a remedial English comprehension course if you expect anyone to take you seriously.
Well, a complete look would be something like 100 hours. Even putting baskets on all the characters heads would take hours. But yeah, I had the same thought.
Their revenue says differently. It's grown. And during a recession, at that. And yeah, there is inflation to account for and whatnot. Still, grown.
Oh wait, piracy is destroying the music industry, blah blah BULLSHIT. Not that it really matters, most of their produce is as much bullshit as their claims. Unfortunately, a bigger cartel^H company is likely to be able to "lobby" for more Internet regulation.
In fact, this is why I have decided not to change my Steam password. If I get a notification that someone tried to access it, I know the password were compromised, and can act accordingly.
Yeah, and the list of games is about 2 seconds away on steam anyways. Wait, less than 2 seconds. Lets hope Valve is right that their encryption is secure (also, it sounds like they think the hackers might not have gotten a chance to download the information.)
And this incident hasn't added to that count at all! Unless you know something we don't, a) steam accounts weren't compromised, b) CC numbers weren't compromised, and c) pretty much everything important that was compromised was either hashed and salted (forum passwords only, separate from Steam accounts) or encrypted.
Of course, if someone did break into your house and steal your game collection, you would have nearly zero chance of getting it back. With Steam, you almost certainly could.
The PS3 is 5 years old and based on even older graphics tech. Beating that on mobile is cool, but not surprising. The PS3 never was impressive, graphically, to PC users. Who had better than HD resolutions for years. Some console games are still limited to 720P. Oh, and people had 3D on PC like, 8 years ago (or more.) Sucked then, sucks now.
Link looks bad, I know. (pretty sure it's clean) That is an advisory for the malware in question (DNSChanger) affecting mac OSX.... so no, it isn't rhetorical. The time of Windows being the only possible infected system is past. Probably thanks to Apple's meteoric rise in popularity.
The FBI info PDF on the malware ( DNSChanger) lists instructions for checking OSX to see if you're infected. It also mentions the malware changes router settings if they are still at defaults. I'm guessing it infects Windows and Mac, with Linux/FreeBSD/Hurd being unaffected as per usual.
I doubt sufficient motivation exists to crack it. You can get higher quality from DVD (or especially Blu-Ray) rips off TPB for anyone so inclined, leaving the only people who want to record Silverlight those people who don't know / don't want to use BitTorrent. Most of those people aren't the sort to know how to crack it. And with only Netflix using it, there really just doesn't seem to be a point.
So maybe no one has circumvented it, but probably just for lack of trying. Witness how fast the much-vaunted PS3 was hacked after removing OtherOS support. And as you say, streaming media recorders always work. DRM simply does not work.
Relaxation is a meaningful use of time. Not to the extent people play Angry Birds (or other video games) or that there aren't better ways (girls come to mind... oh wait this is/., nevermind), but still, just saying. People do need enjoyment and relaxation in their lives. Especially when they have nothing better to do, such as sitting on a bus.
Never said it was a great game (I haven't even played it, for the record), merely that it seems like it was very well made from a gameplay point of view. There are plenty of games out there that fail at that (mostly by being either too easy or too hard). Angry Birds seems like it's right in the middle: easy enough for casual players, but with enough challenge to keep people engaged. That is not easy.
And difficulty/complexity curves can be even harder, if you add anything beyond a mediocre level of complexity (Tetris would be a great example. Incredibly simple all the way through) as each level has to be carefully balanced to introduce new stuff, but also show you how to use it and forgive the inevitable mistakes people make. And good visual clues are even more difficult, unless you use a massive blinking arrow, which is what most games resort to, even really good ones (like Bioshock).
It's a pretty well made game. Lots of visual clues, depth of strategy, and a smooth learning curve. Really, while hard to do, it's not that hard to analyze. "Mental model of the strategy component"? I'm thinking your just trying to justify a degree there.
Now, if you can take that and make a good game, I'd be impressed. Just saying in long, complex sentences with technical words what any decent game reviewer can tell you already is not impressive. Or news.
Oh, and the crappy plays on words are definitely not making me like this story any better.
Most likely, it is a generally unimportant COTS part. Could be resistors, fluorescing CRT panels... w/e. TFA mentions a 12$ million weapon system being ruined by a bad 2$ part. This is, of course, just a guess. In other words, components that wouldn't normally be critical, aren't specific to the part at hand, and shouldn't be expected to fail.
You wouldn't want the government spending millions to develop a mil-spec version of a standard component that is already (or should be) perfectly reliable and functional (although they often do, and people often make fun of them for it. Right or wrong, IDK). So I imagine instead they just buy that stuff from whoever sells it. In this case, Chinese manufacture doesn't matter, as ideally they wouldn't even know what it was for.
The above is pure speculation. TFA is quite light on details. I think the idea behind buying from China would be elimination of wasteful spending.
Fedora has nearly always been extremely quick (sometimes too much so) to adopt new software and features. It would be shocking if they didn't have Gnome 3. Most of the time, this means Fedora is the most technically advanced major Linux distro. It also makes it one of the buggiest. Don't use it if you don't want to play around with cutting edge new Linux software (versions). Simple as that.
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Google probably doesn't want to own a record company. It would be a distraction.
Not to mention completely violate their motto.
This is actually one of the reasons I would love a faster Internet. But for new games, I can usually pre-load to play on release day (speaking of which I believe Skyrim is calling...), and other games I usually pick up only on sales.
Yes and no. I think LOTRO actually made lots more money going free-to-play, but I'm not sure how well it did before hand. Also, I know Valve said something about noticing massive profit uptakes after a game went F2P, pretty sure he was talking about TF2. I think companies use it to boost player count, after everyone who is going to buy the game has done so (usually giving those players some sort of advantage so they don't feel ripped-off - usually getting pay-for content free). It seems to work pretty well as a model, actually: players who want up-front payment end up getting it, everyone else can play for free later but needs to pay micro-transactions to get some stuff the first players got as a one-time payment.
I'm pretty sure a lot of Trekkies would actually pay for those things as realistic features...
10Mb/sec is pretty fast. Hell, I only have 1.5Mb/sec at home and that is almost as fast as I really need (although not when shared.) I'd certainly upgrade to much faster if I could (100Mb/sec would be amazing), but most people really don't need more than 10Mb/s. Unless you do lots of, um, downloading "Linux ISOs" off Bittorrent or something, or for professional reasons, most people don't need faster.
Actually, TFA even makes that point. People in rural areas (I'm semi-rural) would love fiber, but it doesn't get to them. People in urban areas, who could get fiber, don't need it. Yet, I should note. Eventually, of course, fiber is the way of the future and everyone should be able to get it standard, but that day is still a ways off.
You do not know what the fuck you're talking about. No matter how you interpret the infinitesimal amount of information you have on the matter, your advocacy of piracy directly prevents me from doing what I love and providing for other talented musicians
Oh, now who doesn't know what the fuck their talking about? Point out where I "advocated piracy" in my post. Oh wait, I didn't. No, I am sick of the RIAA and compatriots bullshit, that is all. I haven't stolen your music, and I haven't advocated anyone else to do so. I'd tell them to read your post and make up their minds whether they want to support you afterwards.
I can't comment on your musical skills, but you might want to take a remedial English comprehension course if you expect anyone to take you seriously.
there's a nice old lady who says it's so nice to have a visitor. I felt kinda bad after bursting her into flames and robbing her house.
Her mistake. She didn't specify what kind of visitor.
Well, a complete look would be something like 100 hours. Even putting baskets on all the characters heads would take hours. But yeah, I had the same thought.
Their revenue says differently. It's grown. And during a recession, at that. And yeah, there is inflation to account for and whatnot. Still, grown.
Oh wait, piracy is destroying the music industry, blah blah BULLSHIT. Not that it really matters, most of their produce is as much bullshit as their claims. Unfortunately, a bigger cartel^H company is likely to be able to "lobby" for more Internet regulation.
In fact, this is why I have decided not to change my Steam password. If I get a notification that someone tried to access it, I know the password were compromised, and can act accordingly.
Because these days it seems like it's either Steam or Securom (or *shudder* worse). I'll take Steam, TYVM.
Yeah, and the list of games is about 2 seconds away on steam anyways. Wait, less than 2 seconds. Lets hope Valve is right that their encryption is secure (also, it sounds like they think the hackers might not have gotten a chance to download the information.)
And this incident hasn't added to that count at all! Unless you know something we don't, a) steam accounts weren't compromised, b) CC numbers weren't compromised, and c) pretty much everything important that was compromised was either hashed and salted (forum passwords only, separate from Steam accounts) or encrypted.
Of course, if someone did break into your house and steal your game collection, you would have nearly zero chance of getting it back. With Steam, you almost certainly could.
Ummm, no? Unless you mean something weird by "linked", forum and Steam accounts are separate.
The PS3 is 5 years old and based on even older graphics tech. Beating that on mobile is cool, but not surprising. The PS3 never was impressive, graphically, to PC users. Who had better than HD resolutions for years. Some console games are still limited to 720P. Oh, and people had 3D on PC like, 8 years ago (or more.) Sucked then, sucks now.
Link looks bad, I know. (pretty sure it's clean) That is an advisory for the malware in question (DNSChanger) affecting mac OSX.... so no, it isn't rhetorical. The time of Windows being the only possible infected system is past. Probably thanks to Apple's meteoric rise in popularity.
The FBI info PDF on the malware ( DNSChanger) lists instructions for checking OSX to see if you're infected. It also mentions the malware changes router settings if they are still at defaults. I'm guessing it infects Windows and Mac, with Linux/FreeBSD/Hurd being unaffected as per usual.
Might be a little hard to fit the STM in there too.
I doubt sufficient motivation exists to crack it. You can get higher quality from DVD (or especially Blu-Ray) rips off TPB for anyone so inclined, leaving the only people who want to record Silverlight those people who don't know / don't want to use BitTorrent. Most of those people aren't the sort to know how to crack it. And with only Netflix using it, there really just doesn't seem to be a point.
So maybe no one has circumvented it, but probably just for lack of trying. Witness how fast the much-vaunted PS3 was hacked after removing OtherOS support. And as you say, streaming media recorders always work. DRM simply does not work.
Relaxation is a meaningful use of time. Not to the extent people play Angry Birds (or other video games) or that there aren't better ways (girls come to mind... oh wait this is /., nevermind), but still, just saying. People do need enjoyment and relaxation in their lives. Especially when they have nothing better to do, such as sitting on a bus.
Never said it was a great game (I haven't even played it, for the record), merely that it seems like it was very well made from a gameplay point of view. There are plenty of games out there that fail at that (mostly by being either too easy or too hard). Angry Birds seems like it's right in the middle: easy enough for casual players, but with enough challenge to keep people engaged. That is not easy.
And difficulty/complexity curves can be even harder, if you add anything beyond a mediocre level of complexity (Tetris would be a great example. Incredibly simple all the way through) as each level has to be carefully balanced to introduce new stuff, but also show you how to use it and forgive the inevitable mistakes people make. And good visual clues are even more difficult, unless you use a massive blinking arrow, which is what most games resort to, even really good ones (like Bioshock).
It's a pretty well made game. Lots of visual clues, depth of strategy, and a smooth learning curve. Really, while hard to do, it's not that hard to analyze. "Mental model of the strategy component"? I'm thinking your just trying to justify a degree there.
Now, if you can take that and make a good game, I'd be impressed. Just saying in long, complex sentences with technical words what any decent game reviewer can tell you already is not impressive. Or news.
Oh, and the crappy plays on words are definitely not making me like this story any better.
Most likely, it is a generally unimportant COTS part. Could be resistors, fluorescing CRT panels... w/e. TFA mentions a 12$ million weapon system being ruined by a bad 2$ part. This is, of course, just a guess. In other words, components that wouldn't normally be critical, aren't specific to the part at hand, and shouldn't be expected to fail.
You wouldn't want the government spending millions to develop a mil-spec version of a standard component that is already (or should be) perfectly reliable and functional (although they often do, and people often make fun of them for it. Right or wrong, IDK). So I imagine instead they just buy that stuff from whoever sells it. In this case, Chinese manufacture doesn't matter, as ideally they wouldn't even know what it was for.
The above is pure speculation. TFA is quite light on details. I think the idea behind buying from China would be elimination of wasteful spending.
Ok, if you insist.
Fedora has nearly always been extremely quick (sometimes too much so) to adopt new software and features. It would be shocking if they didn't have Gnome 3. Most of the time, this means Fedora is the most technically advanced major Linux distro. It also makes it one of the buggiest. Don't use it if you don't want to play around with cutting edge new Linux software (versions). Simple as that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts There you go. Pretty much all of those are open. User developed, user maintained, user taught.