Yes I am. The popup ad was always the same, "You can continue your adventures in a galaxy far far away by subscribing now to Star Wars Galaxies for only $14.95!" With a nice graphic of C3P0.
And I downloaded it and tried it out. It's supposed to be a 10 day demo, and I couldn't even get through the first without uninstalling it. The game is seriously buggy, it crashed numerous times, it stuck me in missions I had already done with seemingly no way out and wouldn't let me progress at all. On top of that it kept flipping me out of a game I was evaluating to purchase and on to the desktop and poppping up ads to do just that.
Here's a hint SOE: If someone downloads a demo of your product they are already thinking of buying it. Don't preclude people from using a demo to evaluate your product by harassing them to buy it. A better advertisement would be to polish the product you have.
My heart yearns for the age in which my trothkin and I shall finally carve our way through the surat scum of the Inner Sphere and take back that which is rightfully ours: Terra. Cradle of humanity.
The honorless freebirth will be no match for our superior technology and tactics. Glorious battles could be waged on an epic scale if only FASA had not sold themselves to Those who Shall Not be Named! What a treachery that was!
I wish it would come to pass. Battles consisting of battlemechs, elementals, aerospace fighters, infantry and more would surely call warriors together from across known space. Unfortunately it seems that Those who Shall Not be Named do not think these "intellectual properties" should be developed as the odds are against them. To those developers I have only these words: think of the victory if you should win.
Disables Quartz 2D Extreme--Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics.
What's the deal here?! Why is this being done? This is one of the huge reasons why I went MacOS, now it's being disabled?
Many [Gamespot] stores have demo kiosks for consoles such as the PlayStation 2 or Nintendo DS so gamers can try before they buy. Testing a PC game has been impossible.
Right, because nobody makes demos of their games available for free download or distribution. Shareware apparently also doesn't exist.
Jack might be a right wing nut job but he does have a point about Penny Arcade. He was doing an independent campaign that had nothing to do with them, then they took it on themselves to e-mail him.
Yeah, I suppose a guy trying to shove his morality down the collective throats of gamers has absolutely nothing to do with gamers.
On one Presario desktop, the HDD failed without any notice from a corrupt boot sector
Really? What kind of notice would you like? "Your boot sector may or may not become damaged in the future but we don't know because we're not psychic."?
Most of this is whining, every manufacturer does it. To not "cut corners" is to not stay profitable and lose sales. These may seem like 10 cent parts to you, and they are, but a simple 10 cent part over 10 million units just saved 1 million dollars. If you want protection buy extended warranties.
I apologize for being rude and flaming you before, but the idea that all "plastic" devices will have similar scratch resistant is just untenable. It's like saying all metal objects will have the same density.
No, if you will note I have been qualifying my statements by saying "(transparent|thin) film plastic screens" which is rather specific. These plastics have to transmit light and be thin. PDAs, portable games (Various Gameboys, PSP, etc), mobile phones, mp3 players, etc all have these screens and are prone to scratching, this isn't anything new. A reasonable person would know this.
I'm guessing Apple's design guy was so busy worrying about how the thing looked, that they didn't do enough testing on how it worked it real life. That seems to me the most likely explanation. Otherwise you have to wonder why, all of sudden, people are abusing the nano when they didn't abuse their previous ipods.
My theory is because with the nano the screen is flush with the casing as opposed to previous ipods where it was slightly inlaid. CNN ran a story today about it in which Apple claims they use the same plastics as previous ipods.
Before you make a further fool of yourself, perhaps you should read a bit about plastic, which is not a material but a name for a wide category of materials which include everything from materials you could scratch with your fingernail to bulletproof "glass". If they wanted to to, they could make the player with plastic far more resistant to scratching. In fact, they managed to with their other players.
Is that so? Why am I seeing numerous posts which say that their other players screens can also be scratched?
But with people like you buying their product, I'm not sure they need to.
I do not own an ipod, nice try at flamebait though. People like me who understand that thin film plastics can get scratched? Is that what you mean? Yeah I think you're right. I would have enough sense to get a case for it or atleast a screen protector which costs $2.
Do you know how stupid you all sound, suggesting it's perfectly reasonable for somebody to sell an expensive pocket MP3 player that you are then REQUIRED to buy a protective case for lest it become unusable? Do you know how pathetic it sounds when you suggest, with a straight face, that it's actually ok for your screen to be unreadable because you listen to an MP3 player, not look at it?
How is this different from any other plastic screen for any other consumer electronic device ever made? PDA's, PSP's, GBA/DS, hell my SEGA Gamegear, the watch on your wrist, god, even previous ipods. Every single one of them has a plastic screen which is prone to scratching. This isn't a "design flaw", this is physics. Transparent film plastics get scratched. Put another peice of REPLACABLE transparent film plastic over top to prevent the UNREPLACABLE one from being scratched. This is not hard. This is not new. Quit whining.
No actually, they aren't, they are both simply links. "Hotlinking" or "Hyperlinking" are the original terms for linking content from one page on another. There is no distinction, the terms are interchangable.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the section with his name/url was something that -he- put there.
You are correct, it is in the title screen of his game, the very first screen you see, his copyright and his URL.
Nothing was mentioned about him on the company's page. As a casual viewer, I would have assumed that the game was made by a Fuddruckers employee, since I would expect at least a small notice that it was created by a 3rd party developer otherwise.
While this is not intended as an insult it is not reasonable for a person to think this way seeing as how his copyright and URL are on the very first screen of the game.
On the topic of bandwidth, again, I don't think he would have cared nearly as much if they'd just provided a link to the main page of his site. Then he would have been able to use the traffic to gain prestige/solicit donations/whatever flash game makers do to balance out the cost of bandwidth.
It doesn't matter to me one bit what the original game maker cared for or not. He made a resource publicly available. When you do this you have to expect the public to use it. It's like this is some great shock to people when content they make available to everyone gets used. I'll never understand why people think this way.
There are MILLIONS if not BILLIONS of people on the internet now, you think everyone is going to play nice? Lock your content down if you don't want everyone to access it.
Instead, Fuddruckers tried to just anonymously leech from him. Since what they were doing was just to advertise their own products, they could have at least hosted the thing themselves.
Wow. Are you wrong. While the public may not know, the person providing the link does. And it is theft because the content provided over bandwidth wasn't their's to give to the public.
It is you who is wrong, fuddruckers.com did not "steal" anyones bandwidth, that is rediculous. They told people where to get the original, the originators server happily served it to these people. There are technical means to prevent this from happening as is evident from this whole article but those measures were not taken until now.
The way you're arguing this, me selling TVs I stole from walmart out of the back of a truck suddenly aren't stolen property because the person buying them has no idea I stole them.
No, that analogy is not congruent. I'm not selling you TVs, I'm telling you that I think this particular TV at walmart is nice and you are going to walmart and buying it there and walmart is happily selling it to you. This is the way the web works, you can link to any publicly accessable resource. The originator made it explicitly publicly available.
If I put a garden gnome on my lawn for people to see it does not mean someone can camp out on my lawn and invite their friends over to do the same just because they're admiring the gnome. On the same point, yes it was put up for the public, yes it is for the public to see, no other people can't use my bandwith to display it.
Still not congruent. I'm only pointing people in the direction of your lawn gnome, telling people "Hey, look at this, I think it's pretty cool, you should see it too." We may not be allowed to camp on your lawn, but we can stand at the curb and look at it all we want because you put it there in plain sight. If you put it back in your shed and only allowed people in who had a key... well, that's another story, but the fact is you didn't.
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion I suppose. I disagee however. I think MacOS X's UI is currently the best desktop environment.
Of course I wish OS X was completely Free. Many components are.
Sounds like someone mapped both mouse buttons to expose's "show desktop".
No, we graduated to Mac OS X.
Minis are cheap dude.
Yes I am. The popup ad was always the same, "You can continue your adventures in a galaxy far far away by subscribing now to Star Wars Galaxies for only $14.95!" With a nice graphic of C3P0.
And I downloaded it and tried it out. It's supposed to be a 10 day demo, and I couldn't even get through the first without uninstalling it. The game is seriously buggy, it crashed numerous times, it stuck me in missions I had already done with seemingly no way out and wouldn't let me progress at all. On top of that it kept flipping me out of a game I was evaluating to purchase and on to the desktop and poppping up ads to do just that.
Here's a hint SOE: If someone downloads a demo of your product they are already thinking of buying it. Don't preclude people from using a demo to evaluate your product by harassing them to buy it. A better advertisement would be to polish the product you have.
My heart yearns for the age in which my trothkin and I shall finally carve our way through the surat scum of the Inner Sphere and take back that which is rightfully ours: Terra. Cradle of humanity.
The honorless freebirth will be no match for our superior technology and tactics. Glorious battles could be waged on an epic scale if only FASA had not sold themselves to Those who Shall Not be Named! What a treachery that was!
I wish it would come to pass. Battles consisting of battlemechs, elementals, aerospace fighters, infantry and more would surely call warriors together from across known space. Unfortunately it seems that Those who Shall Not be Named do not think these "intellectual properties" should be developed as the odds are against them. To those developers I have only these words: think of the victory if you should win.
May honor sharpen your steel, warriors.
Morally I think anyone who hears a song has a right to the lyrics.
You can add non-iTMS purchased mp3s into your iTunes library.
Wow, new here, aren't you?
Then get high speed or eat some cheese with your whine.
Disables Quartz 2D Extreme--Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics.
What's the deal here?! Why is this being done? This is one of the huge reasons why I went MacOS, now it's being disabled?
Oh Steve you wound me so...
Many [Gamespot] stores have demo kiosks for consoles such as the PlayStation 2 or Nintendo DS so gamers can try before they buy. Testing a PC game has been impossible.
Right, because nobody makes demos of their games available for free download or distribution. Shareware apparently also doesn't exist.
Jack might be a right wing nut job but he does have a point about Penny Arcade. He was doing an independent campaign that had nothing to do with them, then they took it on themselves to e-mail him.
Yeah, I suppose a guy trying to shove his morality down the collective throats of gamers has absolutely nothing to do with gamers.
Thanks, you fail at life.
On one Presario desktop, the HDD failed without any notice from a corrupt boot sector
Really? What kind of notice would you like? "Your boot sector may or may not become damaged in the future but we don't know because we're not psychic."?
Most of this is whining, every manufacturer does it. To not "cut corners" is to not stay profitable and lose sales. These may seem like 10 cent parts to you, and they are, but a simple 10 cent part over 10 million units just saved 1 million dollars. If you want protection buy extended warranties.
CAD is short for CAnadian Dollar, not Canada or Canadian.
The short form for Canada is CAN or CA. The short form for Canadian is CDN.
I'm Canadian, when I saw "CND" I thought to myself "Who the hell is that?"
Not CDN or CAN or CA, but... CND? Who the hell thought that one up?
I apologize for being rude and flaming you before, but the idea that all "plastic" devices will have similar scratch resistant is just untenable. It's like saying all metal objects will have the same density.
No, if you will note I have been qualifying my statements by saying "(transparent|thin) film plastic screens" which is rather specific. These plastics have to transmit light and be thin. PDAs, portable games (Various Gameboys, PSP, etc), mobile phones, mp3 players, etc all have these screens and are prone to scratching, this isn't anything new. A reasonable person would know this.
I'm guessing Apple's design guy was so busy worrying about how the thing looked, that they didn't do enough testing on how it worked it real life. That seems to me the most likely explanation. Otherwise you have to wonder why, all of sudden, people are abusing the nano when they didn't abuse their previous ipods.
My theory is because with the nano the screen is flush with the casing as opposed to previous ipods where it was slightly inlaid. CNN ran a story today about it in which Apple claims they use the same plastics as previous ipods.
Before you make a further fool of yourself, perhaps you should read a bit about plastic, which is not a material but a name for a wide category of materials which include everything from materials you could scratch with your fingernail to bulletproof "glass". If they wanted to to, they could make the player with plastic far more resistant to scratching. In fact, they managed to with their other players.
Is that so? Why am I seeing numerous posts which say that their other players screens can also be scratched?
But with people like you buying their product, I'm not sure they need to.
I do not own an ipod, nice try at flamebait though. People like me who understand that thin film plastics can get scratched? Is that what you mean? Yeah I think you're right. I would have enough sense to get a case for it or atleast a screen protector which costs $2.
It scratches WAY easier.
Please provide me with a study, testing or other imperical evidence to back up your claim.
Do you know how stupid you all sound, suggesting it's perfectly reasonable for somebody to sell an expensive pocket MP3 player that you are then REQUIRED to buy a protective case for lest it become unusable? Do you know how pathetic it sounds when you suggest, with a straight face, that it's actually ok for your screen to be unreadable because you listen to an MP3 player, not look at it?
How is this different from any other plastic screen for any other consumer electronic device ever made? PDA's, PSP's, GBA/DS, hell my SEGA Gamegear, the watch on your wrist, god, even previous ipods. Every single one of them has a plastic screen which is prone to scratching. This isn't a "design flaw", this is physics. Transparent film plastics get scratched. Put another peice of REPLACABLE transparent film plastic over top to prevent the UNREPLACABLE one from being scratched. This is not hard. This is not new. Quit whining.
Or sell subscriptions and rip out the ads.
Hotlinking is different from linking normally.
No actually, they aren't, they are both simply links. "Hotlinking" or "Hyperlinking" are the original terms for linking content from one page on another. There is no distinction, the terms are interchangable.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the section with his name/url was something that -he- put there.
You are correct, it is in the title screen of his game, the very first screen you see, his copyright and his URL.
Nothing was mentioned about him on the company's page. As a casual viewer, I would have assumed that the game was made by a Fuddruckers employee, since I would expect at least a small notice that it was created by a 3rd party developer otherwise.
While this is not intended as an insult it is not reasonable for a person to think this way seeing as how his copyright and URL are on the very first screen of the game.
On the topic of bandwidth, again, I don't think he would have cared nearly as much if they'd just provided a link to the main page of his site. Then he would have been able to use the traffic to gain prestige/solicit donations/whatever flash game makers do to balance out the cost of bandwidth.
It doesn't matter to me one bit what the original game maker cared for or not. He made a resource publicly available. When you do this you have to expect the public to use it. It's like this is some great shock to people when content they make available to everyone gets used. I'll never understand why people think this way.
There are MILLIONS if not BILLIONS of people on the internet now, you think everyone is going to play nice? Lock your content down if you don't want everyone to access it.
Instead, Fuddruckers tried to just anonymously leech from him. Since what they were doing was just to advertise their own products, they could have at least hosted the thing themselves.
Because that sir, is copyright infringement.
Wow. Are you wrong. While the public may not know, the person providing the link does. And it is theft because the content provided over bandwidth wasn't their's to give to the public.
It is you who is wrong, fuddruckers.com did not "steal" anyones bandwidth, that is rediculous. They told people where to get the original, the originators server happily served it to these people. There are technical means to prevent this from happening as is evident from this whole article but those measures were not taken until now.
The way you're arguing this, me selling TVs I stole from walmart out of the back of a truck suddenly aren't stolen property because the person buying them has no idea I stole them.
No, that analogy is not congruent. I'm not selling you TVs, I'm telling you that I think this particular TV at walmart is nice and you are going to walmart and buying it there and walmart is happily selling it to you. This is the way the web works, you can link to any publicly accessable resource. The originator made it explicitly publicly available.
If I put a garden gnome on my lawn for people to see it does not mean someone can camp out on my lawn and invite their friends over to do the same just because they're admiring the gnome. On the same point, yes it was put up for the public, yes it is for the public to see, no other people can't use my bandwith to display it.
Still not congruent. I'm only pointing people in the direction of your lawn gnome, telling people "Hey, look at this, I think it's pretty cool, you should see it too." We may not be allowed to camp on your lawn, but we can stand at the curb and look at it all we want because you put it there in plain sight. If you put it back in your shed and only allowed people in who had a key... well, that's another story, but the fact is you didn't.
Right, because websites, or lack thereof, are the only gauge of technical prowess.