They can customize and optimize the hell out of it since they know the *exact* HW platform it'll be on. All they have to do is have the boot ROM check to see whether it's an i386 game or a PPC game.
Came home after a week in the woods...unit had been off the whole time.
I go to boot it up and walk off. I come back about 5 minutes later and the magic smoke is loose in the room...and there's a bad smell coming from the CPU. I never did boot it up again, so I don't know exactly what failed.
I'm actually going to buy the game now...I was just going to ignore it and play Jedi Academy until Doom 3 hit....but now, I'll have to check out HL2 (if I can get the source).
Because of this leak, Valve may have just actually *earned* a sale from someone who would otherwise have nothing to do with the game (no, I wouldn't pirate it..).
Last spring, I was taking a computer animation class that involved making a 3-5 minute video for the final project. I had a 30 second opening clip that I needed a static screenshot from. I opened it in Windows Media Player, figuring I could just take a screenshot and crop off what I needed. I successfully took the screenshot and pasted it into my image editor program...but when I tried to save the image, only the text I had added in the image editor program saved...the screenshot I had pasted in from WMP never got written to disk even though it appeared in the image editor program. When I closed WMP, the screenshot data DISAPPEARED and all I was left with was the text i had typed in seperately. Now tell me that WMP doesn't have DRM or excessive OS integration.
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Well, find the location of NSA facilities and you've found your chokepoints.
Nope...not gonna work since most Linux users won't ever need to purchase said products.
Wait....a Matrix MMORPG...aren't we already in that?
Or are we still in the real world...and this is how it really all begins?
I'm sure they have a copy of every game legally made for the X-Box...and who knows what *limits* DirectX imposes on hardware tricks?
2 words: Connectix VirtualPC.
They can customize and optimize the hell out of it since they know the *exact* HW platform it'll be on. All they have to do is have the boot ROM check to see whether it's an i386 game or a PPC game.
Just like there was no Godfather 3?
It happened a while ago, but it happened to me.
AMD K6-2/450.
Came home after a week in the woods...unit had been off the whole time.
I go to boot it up and walk off. I come back about 5 minutes later and the magic smoke is loose in the room...and there's a bad smell coming from the CPU. I never did boot it up again, so I don't know exactly what failed.
No, a supernova would be the ultimate Slashdotting.
Begun, the Clone Wars have.
2.0 works just fine here behind OpenBSD's pf. I even can see that I have new mail.
It seems like I see longer lines at ATMs than I do in the bank.
What if you're not ALLOWED to live off campus?
I'm actually going to buy the game now...I was just going to ignore it and play Jedi Academy until Doom 3 hit....but now, I'll have to check out HL2 (if I can get the source).
Because of this leak, Valve may have just actually *earned* a sale from someone who would otherwise have nothing to do with the game (no, I wouldn't pirate it..).
Weird Al used that in a song...I'm listening to it now.
Reverse engineering FOR THE PURPOSES OF INTEROPERABILITY....protected from the DMCA
I am not a lawyer
I'd like to see a single computer use this!
(it's a joke..laugh)
So the virus is WINE-compatible?
How nice of the virus authors to remember those of us who don't totally bow to the Dark Lord.
(It's a joke, duh)
MiB and GiB were half-assed inventions made up AFTER therd drive industry started its bulshit.
"What DRM Support?" There's a s**tload of it
Here's my story.
Last spring, I was taking a computer animation class that involved making a 3-5 minute video for the final project. I had a 30 second opening clip that I needed a static screenshot from. I opened it in Windows Media Player, figuring I could just take a screenshot and crop off what I needed. I successfully took the screenshot and pasted it into my image editor program...but when I tried to save the image, only the text I had added in the image editor program saved...the screenshot I had pasted in from WMP never got written to disk even though it appeared in the image editor program. When I closed WMP, the screenshot data DISAPPEARED and all I was left with was the text i had typed in seperately. Now tell me that WMP doesn't have DRM or excessive OS integration.
"One grid to rule them all, one grid to find them, one grid to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
Darkness...hmmm...
Be happy....You *DO* have a job.
Besides, if you just start hating people, then you'll be glad you're alone.
Just store it in /dev/null
My "Vol. 1" set says it's supposedly the first 13 episodes on 3 DVDs....maybe the "Volume" moniker is just a naming thing.
So you wanna see the DMCA converted into a general-purpose explosive?
Command line. /all"
"ipconfig