Could you point to the piece of knowledge published prior to the release of the game that stated outright that the retail box version of Half-Life 2 would include SecuROM protection?
If you buy the game via Steam, you could give your CD key to other people and let them log in via your account to download the game on their own machines.
The SecuROM protection did absolutely nothing to stop piracy.
I just knew the irony nazi's would pick up on that.
You mean "nazis".
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A couple of the reviews I've read are wrong, then.
No, they're right, the previous poster is wrong. I have both HL:S and Blue Shift and I can confirm that the models in HL:S are the old, blocky ones.
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No, they didn't. The models are the low-poly ones from the original HL.
I did a comparison last night. I also looked into a method for possibly importing the high-poly models into HL: Source, but I'll need some tool to convert the model format, since despite having the same file extention, the original engine and the Source engine clearly use different formats.
To my knowledge, you only NEED to connect to steam the initial time to activate the software.
Which is one more time than how often I NEED to connect to other internet servers in order to watch a movie or play a single-player game.
Oh, and if I have to reformat and reinstall, I get to authenticate AGAIN. Oh, but if Steam goes belly-up, I'm SOL. On the other hand, if Id Software were to dissolve today, I'd still be able to reinstall and play Doom 3 next year.
Yeah, and every time I watch a DVD movie, I have to confirm with the MPAA that I own the rights to view the movie......oh, wait, I don't. Your analogy falls apart there.
Gravity is also a theory, not a fact, regarding the attraction of masses. The belief that you will not suddenly go flying off of the earth for no discernable reason should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.
You shouldn't have to do that. As long as your work computer isn't logged into Steam, you should be able to log into Steam and go right into HL2 once you install it.
After the install, Steam will start up and ask for the CD key. Just hit Cancel, since you've already registered the product with Steam, and you'll get a list of the installed games. When you choose HL2, it will connect to unlock the files, as the game is already registered.
I've just confirmed this by running an install on a second machine.
I thought that the impositions were odd, given that it was really more of a powergamer thing to do (getting to the Plasma Beam room door early was not for novices, nor were many of the other sequence break). Still, it's not like they stopped all sequence breaking (just some of the more fun ones).
Also, Metroid: Zero Mission was designed with sequence-breakers in mind. There's an established 'sequence' of items to obtain, but the devs actually created little hidden methods for bypassing them for the power gamers, so it is possible to take out Ridley first, or to go through the game without grabbing the Varia or some other "essential" items with a special ending specifically for those who completed the game with a very low (under 15% IIRC) percentage. I wonder if that mentality carried over into MP2.
Metroid is NOT about the graphics, or the innovative new ways to play it... Metroid is about the story, mainly.
What Metroid games have you played? I am a fan of the series, but I admit that the storyline is often window dressing.
It's not bad, and it's not as sparse or empty as Doom 3, but it's still just a framework around which the game is made. It's not like it's Deus Ex.
Yes, Metroid Prime offered an immersive atmosphere where you could get bits and pieces of information about the history of the game setting, but all of that was extraneous and optional rather than an integral part of the gameplay.
If he had been using paper junk mail, then he would have had to pay to send out his garbage, rather than stealing the resources of others.
Spammers actually have used "save the trees" as a justification in the past. They try to distract attention away from the fact that what they do is theft, period.
In Louisville, there is a mall with one such kiosk right in front of the local GameStop (the kiosk was in front of the local EB, but they moved for some reason). Apparently Nintendo has already been out there, but apparently has declined to take action.
I heard that it was because they didn't expect the crooks to be there for very long and thus didn't think that it was worth the trouble. Now that they're sitll there, I'm tempted to give NoA a call.
So...your response to a rebuttal that Bush "won big" (which he did not, in either the Electoral College or the popular vote), is to claim that the person pointing this out is full of "righteous indignation"?
Seems to me that you don't like having uncomfortable facts pointed out to you.
If eveolution is to be true, it needs a starting place, so yes primordial soup-type arguments are correctly placed in the same sphere as evolution.
Wrong. Evolution deals with changes within populations of living organisms as they reproduce through successive generations. The point at which life began involved, in at least one step, a period where there were no reproducing life forms. As such, evolution does not apply.
Evolution begins when the first reproducing life forms are present. How those life forms got there is not a matter addressed by evolution. They could have come about through chemical reactions in primordial soup, they could have been seeded by aliens or even time-travelling humans or they could have been zap-poofed into existence by some divine entity, and it would have no bearing whatsoever on the theory of evolution.
Hmm, if you're the creator of all things and you're perfect how can you create something that in not perfect?
Well, perhaps part of the definition of a perfect being is the ability to create imperfect things if that is what is desired.
Thus, our imperfection is purely the will of God.
Then again, "perfect" is a hard thing to nail down, becuase it's purely subjective in many ways. What is the "perfect" eye or hair colour? What is the "perfect" height?
I agree. Most molecular biologists who are in the intelligent design camp are not against "micro-evolution", but are instead against "macro-evolution" -- primodial soup-type theories of genesis of life
Evolution theory does not cover the ultimate origins of life. The ultimate origins of life is a matter not in any way addressed by evolution, "macro" or otherwise. This is a common Creationist misconception, but they repeat it anyway because ignorance of the facts is no barrier for them.
Mainly because he wasn't lying when he sait that. (sort of)
Actually, he didn't say that he "invented" the Internet, he said "I took the initiative in creating the Internet.", which was a poor phrasing to describe the bill that he pushed. Given the state of the 'net as it is, and how it differs from what he apparently envisioned at the time, it is debatable as to how much influence he really had on the 'net, though he gets ripped on a little more often than he should for it. But then, the best lies are those based in truth. Sure, there's the claim that Gore referred to Christians as a "blight on the Earth" in one of his books, but that claim is easily debunked. This one has basis in fact, thus you can spin all kinds of "true" stories about it.
This guy assumed the guy buying the laptops was a scammer sending him a rubber cheque.
Not a rubber cheque (written on an empty account), but a phony check, written on an account that does not exist, or written on a stolen account. In this case, the check was a phony one and theFAILURE could tell from looking at it (and he had it double-checked by a bank, IIRC). That check will never clear, and the scammer has absolutely no way of making it clear.
Essentially, the scammer tried to buy stolen goods with a fake check. The seller knew that the check was fake, so I don't see how the seller is committing fraud, given that he's not been paid for the merchandise that he was supposed to have sent out. Had the check been real and from an account actually held by the sender, he probably would have sent real merchandise and we would be hearing about President-elect Nader next week.
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Could you point to the piece of knowledge published prior to the release of the game that stated outright that the retail box version of Half-Life 2 would include SecuROM protection?
If you buy the game via Steam, you could give your CD key to other people and let them log in via your account to download the game on their own machines.
The SecuROM protection did absolutely nothing to stop piracy.
I just knew the irony nazi's would pick up on that.
You mean "nazis".
A couple of the reviews I've read are wrong, then.
No, they're right, the previous poster is wrong. I have both HL:S and Blue Shift and I can confirm that the models in HL:S are the old, blocky ones.
No, they didn't. The models are the low-poly ones from the original HL.
I did a comparison last night. I also looked into a method for possibly importing the high-poly models into HL: Source, but I'll need some tool to convert the model format, since despite having the same file extention, the original engine and the Source engine clearly use different formats.
To my knowledge, you only NEED to connect to steam the initial time to activate the software.
Which is one more time than how often I NEED to connect to other internet servers in order to watch a movie or play a single-player game.
Oh, and if I have to reformat and reinstall, I get to authenticate AGAIN. Oh, but if Steam goes belly-up, I'm SOL. On the other hand, if Id Software were to dissolve today, I'd still be able to reinstall and play Doom 3 next year.
The way gravity works is a theory. That it works is a fact.
Just like evolution!
Yeah, and every time I watch a DVD movie, I have to confirm with the MPAA that I own the rights to view the movie... ...oh, wait, I don't. Your analogy falls apart there.
Gravity is also a theory, not a fact, regarding the attraction of masses. The belief that you will not suddenly go flying off of the earth for no discernable reason should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.
You shouldn't have to do that. As long as your work computer isn't logged into Steam, you should be able to log into Steam and go right into HL2 once you install it.
After the install, Steam will start up and ask for the CD key. Just hit Cancel, since you've already registered the product with Steam, and you'll get a list of the installed games. When you choose HL2, it will connect to unlock the files, as the game is already registered.
I've just confirmed this by running an install on a second machine.
I thought that the impositions were odd, given that it was really more of a powergamer thing to do (getting to the Plasma Beam room door early was not for novices, nor were many of the other sequence break). Still, it's not like they stopped all sequence breaking (just some of the more fun ones).
Also, Metroid: Zero Mission was designed with sequence-breakers in mind. There's an established 'sequence' of items to obtain, but the devs actually created little hidden methods for bypassing them for the power gamers, so it is possible to take out Ridley first, or to go through the game without grabbing the Varia or some other "essential" items with a special ending specifically for those who completed the game with a very low (under 15% IIRC) percentage. I wonder if that mentality carried over into MP2.
In Prime, you don't have to look down every blasted time you jump.
True, but if you lock the view down, and then quickly release it as you jump, you can get some extra distance.
Useful for sequence breaking, like getting the space jump as soon as you land on Tallon IV.
(Well, that actually involves lock-strafe jumping, but it's useful in other places)
Metroid is NOT about the graphics, or the innovative new ways to play it... Metroid is about the story, mainly.
What Metroid games have you played? I am a fan of the series, but I admit that the storyline is often window dressing.
It's not bad, and it's not as sparse or empty as Doom 3, but it's still just a framework around which the game is made. It's not like it's Deus Ex.
Yes, Metroid Prime offered an immersive atmosphere where you could get bits and pieces of information about the history of the game setting, but all of that was extraneous and optional rather than an integral part of the gameplay.
If he had been using paper junk mail, then he would have had to pay to send out his garbage, rather than stealing the resources of others.
Spammers actually have used "save the trees" as a justification in the past. They try to distract attention away from the fact that what they do is theft, period.
...but no one else seems to agree with me that convicted email spammers should be slowly tortured to death.
In Louisville, there is a mall with one such kiosk right in front of the local GameStop (the kiosk was in front of the local EB, but they moved for some reason). Apparently Nintendo has already been out there, but apparently has declined to take action.
I heard that it was because they didn't expect the crooks to be there for very long and thus didn't think that it was worth the trouble. Now that they're sitll there, I'm tempted to give NoA a call.
Wouldn't this be bad for life in said ocean?
So...your response to a rebuttal that Bush "won big" (which he did not, in either the Electoral College or the popular vote), is to claim that the person pointing this out is full of "righteous indignation"?
Seems to me that you don't like having uncomfortable facts pointed out to you.
If eveolution is to be true, it needs a starting place, so yes primordial soup-type arguments are correctly placed in the same sphere as evolution.
Wrong. Evolution deals with changes within populations of living organisms as they reproduce through successive generations. The point at which life began involved, in at least one step, a period where there were no reproducing life forms. As such, evolution does not apply.
Evolution begins when the first reproducing life forms are present. How those life forms got there is not a matter addressed by evolution. They could have come about through chemical reactions in primordial soup, they could have been seeded by aliens or even time-travelling humans or they could have been zap-poofed into existence by some divine entity, and it would have no bearing whatsoever on the theory of evolution.
Hmm, if you're the creator of all things and you're perfect how can you create something that in not perfect?
Well, perhaps part of the definition of a perfect being is the ability to create imperfect things if that is what is desired.
Thus, our imperfection is purely the will of God.
Then again, "perfect" is a hard thing to nail down, becuase it's purely subjective in many ways. What is the "perfect" eye or hair colour? What is the "perfect" height?
I agree. Most molecular biologists who are in the intelligent design camp are not against "micro-evolution", but are instead against "macro-evolution" -- primodial soup-type theories of genesis of life
Evolution theory does not cover the ultimate origins of life. The ultimate origins of life is a matter not in any way addressed by evolution, "macro" or otherwise. This is a common Creationist misconception, but they repeat it anyway because ignorance of the facts is no barrier for them.
Mainly because he wasn't lying when he sait that. (sort of)
Actually, he didn't say that he "invented" the Internet, he said "I took the initiative in creating the Internet.", which was a poor phrasing to describe the bill that he pushed. Given the state of the 'net as it is, and how it differs from what he apparently envisioned at the time, it is debatable as to how much influence he really had on the 'net, though he gets ripped on a little more often than he should for it. But then, the best lies are those based in truth. Sure, there's the claim that Gore referred to Christians as a "blight on the Earth" in one of his books, but that claim is easily debunked. This one has basis in fact, thus you can spin all kinds of "true" stories about it.
Al Gore is 56, which means that he would have been 21 at the time of the 'net's first incarnation, not 10.
Thanks to his invention, I was able to look that up to correct you.
This guy assumed the guy buying the laptops was a scammer sending him a rubber cheque.
Not a rubber cheque (written on an empty account), but a phony check, written on an account that does not exist, or written on a stolen account. In this case, the check was a phony one and theFAILURE could tell from looking at it (and he had it double-checked by a bank, IIRC). That check will never clear, and the scammer has absolutely no way of making it clear.
Essentially, the scammer tried to buy stolen goods with a fake check. The seller knew that the check was fake, so I don't see how the seller is committing fraud, given that he's not been paid for the merchandise that he was supposed to have sent out. Had the check been real and from an account actually held by the sender, he probably would have sent real merchandise and we would be hearing about President-elect Nader next week.
...is the guy pouring a cup of water over himself while holding a sign that reads "I SOAK IN GOLDEN SHOWERS"
:)
But then, perhaps I'm a bit biased (look at the submitter)