"Any Game developer can look at STEAM and realize this is what not to do."
Any game developer that is interested in making money (which they all are) looks at steam as the way to do things. You are in the minority. There are far more people that just play at home, don't go to lan parties and don't have any problems at all.
The problem is that you are experiencing emotions at all while committing acts like that that are purely fantasy and not real. The fact that you are having problems separating real life emotions from something that is not really taking place is a sign that you have problems separating fact from fiction.
It says nothing about the game or video game violence but says tons about your mental state and your perception of reality.
Then there must be something seriously wrong with you. I'm 30 and have been playing these games since I could hold a controller. I don't ever get the urges to go out and kill a hooker or carjack someone or gun down a cop.
"Sen. Clinton etal. may not have the solutions, (and I most certainly don't) but people denying that these games are problematic are at the root of the problem."
Prove that they are a problem? Give me proof that because a kid played Grand Theft Auto that they are now more prone to picking up hookers and killing them. Show me the proof that they are now going to go out and carjack? Show me the proof that they are going to start killing cops?
Politicians take this line of thinking because it might get them votes. They don't give one damn about your kid or my neighbors kids, all they care about is picking up whatever the cause of the week is and twisting it to use to their advantage to get more votes.
Really, thats the only Ireason go there once a week to keep the small amazon discount that they give your account. Its not much but if its enough to push the price of something below a local store then I'll order it from amazon to avoid tax.
Its the price of the device and the absolutely crazy price of the games that totally turns me off to this thing. I mean come on...$40 for a portable game? I don't care how cool it looks I refuse to pay $40 a game for a portable. $40 for a normal console ends up being on the cheap side but on the portable side thats absolutely crazy.
Maybe if the device drops to $99-$150 and the games down to $30 I'll bite. But not at its current prices.
"But according to some posters here, everyone should have read this fine print, buried in the terms of service:"
That "fine print" is far from "buried in the terms of service". They email you a big ass warning. There is big red type when you sign up about it. Its on the paperwork you sign when you sign up. If you transfer a number its on there. When you go to your features page its listed there. I also think its on your dashboard when you login if you haven't set it up.
What else do you want them to do? Mail stickers to everyone to stick on their phones? How about magnets? Banners? Fliers? Do you want them to tattoo it on your eyelids also?
Its all about responsibility, vonage is doing everything it can in this regard until the telcos let them have access to their systems. At some point in the whole grand scheme of things people have to start accepting responsibility for themselves.
"I hear Pixar salaries aren't that great, but with this as what they get in compensation, I suspect there are few complaints."
Except swanky offices and cushy cubes and bathrooms doesn't pay mortgages and rent or put food on the table or buy clothes for your kids. All it does it make you spend more time at work and away from family.
"Luckily, the fraud departments at Bank One and Capital One were good enough to resolve the two fraudulant charges I've had to my card in the last couple of years. They also called me any time there was unusual spending patterns on my account (for which I am grateful)."
It is good but it also extremely annoying. I had a major hassle trying to buy a new computer even though the shipping address was listed on my cc account of where i wanted it shipped. The companies see the result of a charge attempt as a rejection when it is not a rejection, it is a hold awaiting confirmation. I just recently had another problem buying something the company said I was rejected. I verified the charges and told them to do it again. They did and it came back rejected again. I called the cc company and they said they locked my account. There have never been any incorrect charges on that account. Security is one thing but when you make the customer have to call 3 different times for one product thats ridiculious.
Every place I go to to buy something just asks for my id anyways. Best buy and stores like that are the worst. $19 dvd, need to see another id...What???
Its 19 freaking dollars! I could see if it were a 4k tv but a stupid $19 dvd? Whats the point of a signature anymore if no one bothers to care that its there or not, they just want to see a picture id and match the pic on the id to the person standing in front of them.
Get rid of signatures and just make all credit cards have photo's embedded in them. When you swipe it displays a small photo of you on the screen. There's your sig right there.
signed between the customer of the ISP and the ISP to provide always on internet. There is nothing in MY contract that says they can limit my bandwidth or limit where I can go or what data I can push or pull down. If the courts won't help the voip providers then they should be working with the users because this is (along with bandwidth throttling) is a violation of the agreement between isp and customer.
Actually, sueing them and never having to work again because you would be guaranteed a HUGE payoff would have been the absolutely right thing to do.
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If double clicking a windows installer and typing in a path to your music is too complex for someone (which is all you really need to do with the windows version of slimserver) then they really need to rethink their need for a streaming server.
I'll double click myself instead of paying someone $70 to do it for me.
You're assuming an embryo at that early stage is a human being. Science has said it isn't. So since science says it isn't it must be your wierd sense of morality that is against it. If that is the case then you really have no place in a scientific discussion because your emotions will always override what is fact.
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Or you can download slimserver for free. Granted the $70 fee gets you linspire, but I'm willing to bet someone wanting to do this has the ability to download linux iso images and do the install themselves and for free.
Show me proof that a fertilized egg is a human. Its just a collection of cells, nothing more nothing less. It has potential to be something more, but the cheese in my fridge also has the potential to be something more but it isn't yet.
You got marked as troll in the previous post because that post was a troll. If you don't watch tv thats fine, but to go into tv threads and bash people that do watch tv and want to talk about it is nothing but trolling.
Here's a clue, we don't care if you watch tv or not.
"Yes, who cares if you got the app but no documentation to go with it. It's all greek to you, obviously!"
Hahaha...exactly! Who cares! If you want documentation spend the money and buy the product. If you want it for free then you don't expect to get that. I mean really, come on now.
"the scene"
that was quite funny actually. Sounds like your some underground group doing gods work or something. A bunch of kiddies sitting around their computers ripping games and distributing online that think they are gods gift to the internet is not "a scene".
They are the equivelent of a group of lazy punks who really won't amount to much in their life but get satisfaction seeing their groups named spread on a game "release" like it were graphitti on a brick wall.
Here's another clue, no one cares who does the game releases. If it feeds your ego then good for you but at the end of the day all that extra crap gets deleted. You do realize how stupid you sound, right?
Ok, now tell me really how many times that actually happened to you? I've NEVER seen it happen. In the world of cable modems nor did I have it ever happen back in the slow modem/bbs days.
If a protocol is designed to help with corrupted pieces I'd rather let the protocol do all the work instead of me having to sort through hundreds of tiny files to find the one that is in error.
I don't buy into any of the reasons posted so far because they are the same reasons from over a decade ago.
Lets look at some of those "reasons" for using rar:
"Because the releases consists of small parts you don't have to worry about re-downloading the whole release if something goes wrong and a file gets corrupted."
BS. In this day and age of high speed internet this is not relevent. Especially while using torrent files. It really wasn't ever relevent during the modem/bbs days. Z-modem had resume downloads and everyone used it. No need for rar then.
"You can control that everything has been downloaded correctly by checking against the SFV-file. Hence you will always know whether you've gotten a complete uncorrupt release of what you were downloading."
Again not relevent. If you are taking the time to d/l instead of actually buy something why the hell would you care if it was complete? As long as its not infected (which you just scan it to find out) and works then who cares.
"You can download from multiple sources at the same time - ensuring comformt and maximizing your download speed."
Torrent files and high speed internet trumps this one too. Another not relevent "arguement".
"We ge a standardized way of sharing, which DC obviously benefits greatly from. You will learn to recognize a good release and be spared the inconvenient trouble/surprise of poorly ripped movies by amatures."
Opinion. Yeah, those handicam releases of highly compressed video sure do benefit from being split into hundreds of small files and stuck into another archive. Clue, you don't gain anything by recompressing video.
I have yet to EVER hear of a valid reason to use rar. It seems people use it to be difficult and thats about it. And and don't give me the bs about newsgroups. They are slow and unreliable and extinct.
"Clue: WinRAR compresses better, is more secure, and is a heck of a lot more feature rich than WinZIP. WinZIP is, to put it nicely, a piece of shit. And ZIP is outdated compared to RAR and 7-Zip (be it compression or security)."
What possible features could you want except that it compresses (who gives a shit about sizes these days) and it extracts. Passwords are a pain in the ass and anyone that password locks their archive then uploads it for people is just trying to get their hit counts up for their web sites.
So again I ask, give me a good reason why rar is better?
I can't stand rar files. Its like saying "lets use this archive format that is different just because we want to be different."
Zip has been a standard for a long long time now, so what is the point in archiving in something completely different that then makes people go out and download and install yet another piece of software to have loaded in memory to do the same thing zip does.
What annoys me even more is when you download a movie file and someone rar's it up into a million different pieces. You aren't compressing it any and we aren't all on 14.4 modems anymore. Just make it a freaking iso or bin file and be done with it. Don't even get me started about people who rip cd's to mp3 but don't bother to run them through the online system to have it automatically assign cd and track titles. People are freaking lazy. If you are going to do something illegal like that at least do a good job and do it completely and correctly.
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"Any Game developer can look at STEAM and realize this is what not to do."
Any game developer that is interested in making money (which they all are) looks at steam as the way to do things. You are in the minority. There are far more people that just play at home, don't go to lan parties and don't have any problems at all.
The problem is that you are experiencing emotions at all while committing acts like that that are purely fantasy and not real. The fact that you are having problems separating real life emotions from something that is not really taking place is a sign that you have problems separating fact from fiction.
It says nothing about the game or video game violence but says tons about your mental state and your perception of reality.
I don't have any in my dell 2001FP lcd monitor and its 1600x1200. So no, I wouldn't accept even 1 dead pixel.
Then there must be something seriously wrong with you. I'm 30 and have been playing these games since I could hold a controller. I don't ever get the urges to go out and kill a hooker or carjack someone or gun down a cop.
"Sen. Clinton etal. may not have the solutions, (and I most certainly don't) but people denying that these games are problematic are at the root of the problem."
Prove that they are a problem? Give me proof that because a kid played Grand Theft Auto that they are now more prone to picking up hookers and killing them. Show me the proof that they are now going to go out and carjack? Show me the proof that they are going to start killing cops?
Politicians take this line of thinking because it might get them votes. They don't give one damn about your kid or my neighbors kids, all they care about is picking up whatever the cause of the week is and twisting it to use to their advantage to get more votes.
Denial does just flow in one direction.
Really, thats the only Ireason go there once a week to keep the small amazon discount that they give your account. Its not much but if its enough to push the price of something below a local store then I'll order it from amazon to avoid tax.
Its the price of the device and the absolutely crazy price of the games that totally turns me off to this thing. I mean come on...$40 for a portable game? I don't care how cool it looks I refuse to pay $40 a game for a portable. $40 for a normal console ends up being on the cheap side but on the portable side thats absolutely crazy.
Maybe if the device drops to $99-$150 and the games down to $30 I'll bite. But not at its current prices.
"But according to some posters here, everyone should have read this fine print, buried in the terms of service:"
That "fine print" is far from "buried in the terms of service". They email you a big ass warning. There is big red type when you sign up about it. Its on the paperwork you sign when you sign up. If you transfer a number its on there. When you go to your features page its listed there. I also think its on your dashboard when you login if you haven't set it up.
What else do you want them to do? Mail stickers to everyone to stick on their phones? How about magnets? Banners? Fliers? Do you want them to tattoo it on your eyelids also?
Its all about responsibility, vonage is doing everything it can in this regard until the telcos let them have access to their systems. At some point in the whole grand scheme of things people have to start accepting responsibility for themselves.
"I hear Pixar salaries aren't that great, but with this as what they get in compensation, I suspect there are few complaints."
Except swanky offices and cushy cubes and bathrooms doesn't pay mortgages and rent or put food on the table or buy clothes for your kids. All it does it make you spend more time at work and away from family.
"Luckily, the fraud departments at Bank One and Capital One were good enough to resolve the two fraudulant charges I've had to my card in the last couple of years. They also called me any time there was unusual spending patterns on my account (for which I am grateful)."
It is good but it also extremely annoying. I had a major hassle trying to buy a new computer even though the shipping address was listed on my cc account of where i wanted it shipped. The companies see the result of a charge attempt as a rejection when it is not a rejection, it is a hold awaiting confirmation. I just recently had another problem buying something the company said I was rejected. I verified the charges and told them to do it again. They did and it came back rejected again. I called the cc company and they said they locked my account. There have never been any incorrect charges on that account. Security is one thing but when you make the customer have to call 3 different times for one product thats ridiculious.
Every place I go to to buy something just asks for my id anyways. Best buy and stores like that are the worst. $19 dvd, need to see another id...What???
Its 19 freaking dollars! I could see if it were a 4k tv but a stupid $19 dvd? Whats the point of a signature anymore if no one bothers to care that its there or not, they just want to see a picture id and match the pic on the id to the person standing in front of them.
Get rid of signatures and just make all credit cards have photo's embedded in them. When you swipe it displays a small photo of you on the screen. There's your sig right there.
signed between the customer of the ISP and the ISP to provide always on internet. There is nothing in MY contract that says they can limit my bandwidth or limit where I can go or what data I can push or pull down. If the courts won't help the voip providers then they should be working with the users because this is (along with bandwidth throttling) is a violation of the agreement between isp and customer.
I don't know anyone who uses Azureus. Its bloated and I can't stand something as simple as a bt client that doesn't load instantly.
Ep 3 is distributed by Fox. The OC is currently one of fox's hottest shows. Seems more about placement than target audience.
Best place to put it to reach the most viewers.
The OC is the current 90210.
Actually, sueing them and never having to work again because you would be guaranteed a HUGE payoff would have been the absolutely right thing to do.
If double clicking a windows installer and typing in a path to your music is too complex for someone (which is all you really need to do with the windows version of slimserver) then they really need to rethink their need for a streaming server.
I'll double click myself instead of paying someone $70 to do it for me.
You're assuming an embryo at that early stage is a human being. Science has said it isn't. So since science says it isn't it must be your wierd sense of morality that is against it. If that is the case then you really have no place in a scientific discussion because your emotions will always override what is fact.
Or you can download slimserver for free. Granted the $70 fee gets you linspire, but I'm willing to bet someone wanting to do this has the ability to download linux iso images and do the install themselves and for free.
Show me proof that a fertilized egg is a human. Its just a collection of cells, nothing more nothing less. It has potential to be something more, but the cheese in my fridge also has the potential to be something more but it isn't yet.
You got marked as troll in the previous post because that post was a troll. If you don't watch tv thats fine, but to go into tv threads and bash people that do watch tv and want to talk about it is nothing but trolling.
Here's a clue, we don't care if you watch tv or not.
"Yes, who cares if you got the app but no documentation to go with it. It's all greek to you, obviously!"
Hahaha...exactly! Who cares! If you want documentation spend the money and buy the product. If you want it for free then you don't expect to get that. I mean really, come on now.
"the scene"
that was quite funny actually. Sounds like your some underground group doing gods work or something. A bunch of kiddies sitting around their computers ripping games and distributing online that think they are gods gift to the internet is not "a scene".
They are the equivelent of a group of lazy punks who really won't amount to much in their life but get satisfaction seeing their groups named spread on a game "release" like it were graphitti on a brick wall.
Here's another clue, no one cares who does the game releases. If it feeds your ego then good for you but at the end of the day all that extra crap gets deleted. You do realize how stupid you sound, right?
Ok, now tell me really how many times that actually happened to you? I've NEVER seen it happen. In the world of cable modems nor did I have it ever happen back in the slow modem/bbs days.
If a protocol is designed to help with corrupted pieces I'd rather let the protocol do all the work instead of me having to sort through hundreds of tiny files to find the one that is in error.
I don't buy into any of the reasons posted so far because they are the same reasons from over a decade ago.
Lets look at some of those "reasons" for using rar:
"Because the releases consists of small parts you don't have to worry about re-downloading the whole release if something goes wrong and a file gets corrupted."
BS. In this day and age of high speed internet this is not relevent. Especially while using torrent files. It really wasn't ever relevent during the modem/bbs days. Z-modem had resume downloads and everyone used it. No need for rar then.
"You can control that everything has been downloaded correctly by checking against the SFV-file. Hence you will always know whether you've gotten a complete uncorrupt release of what you were downloading."
Again not relevent. If you are taking the time to d/l instead of actually buy something why the hell would you care if it was complete? As long as its not infected (which you just scan it to find out) and works then who cares.
"You can download from multiple sources at the same time - ensuring comformt and maximizing your download speed."
Torrent files and high speed internet trumps this one too. Another not relevent "arguement".
"We ge a standardized way of sharing, which DC obviously benefits greatly from. You will learn to recognize a good release and be spared the inconvenient trouble/surprise of poorly ripped movies by amatures."
Opinion. Yeah, those handicam releases of highly compressed video sure do benefit from being split into hundreds of small files and stuck into another archive. Clue, you don't gain anything by recompressing video.
I have yet to EVER hear of a valid reason to use rar. It seems people use it to be difficult and thats about it. And and don't give me the bs about newsgroups. They are slow and unreliable and extinct.
"Clue: WinRAR compresses better, is more secure, and is a heck of a lot more feature rich than WinZIP. WinZIP is, to put it nicely, a piece of shit. And ZIP is outdated compared to RAR and 7-Zip (be it compression or security)."
What possible features could you want except that it compresses (who gives a shit about sizes these days) and it extracts. Passwords are a pain in the ass and anyone that password locks their archive then uploads it for people is just trying to get their hit counts up for their web sites.
So again I ask, give me a good reason why rar is better?
People still use news servers? Christ that is so early 90s. And you all call me dense?
I can't stand rar files. Its like saying "lets use this archive format that is different just because we want to be different."
Zip has been a standard for a long long time now, so what is the point in archiving in something completely different that then makes people go out and download and install yet another piece of software to have loaded in memory to do the same thing zip does.
What annoys me even more is when you download a movie file and someone rar's it up into a million different pieces. You aren't compressing it any and we aren't all on 14.4 modems anymore. Just make it a freaking iso or bin file and be done with it. Don't even get me started about people who rip cd's to mp3 but don't bother to run them through the online system to have it automatically assign cd and track titles. People are freaking lazy. If you are going to do something illegal like that at least do a good job and do it completely and correctly.