I'd think the disproportionately large libertarian minded audience in here would have immediately gravitated toward this. I mean when I took my first accounting course, one of the first things that they said was that hell would freeze over before governments start to release their balance sheets. If the data is even closely detailed, we are looking at what I'd hope to be a positive step in how governments manage themselves with the populace.
I never thought that so many of you here would be afraid or ultimately jaded about transparency and openness. *shudder* Maybe Steve Jobs has done a better job on you than I thought possible. *making plans to move into the woods and live off twigs and berries*
I love using actually. Actually, I think that's the greatest word in the English language; Though I agree with perfect storm. Perfect storm is to Intelligent Design as Destiny is to Creationism.
I'm sorry, why does a melting pot of ideas ultimately mean an inferior game in any way? I think you're jumping to subjective conclusions.
You can say that many or all of the great action movies of the last 20 years were all inspired by Asian martial arts and more specifically the high amount of skill and talent that Hong Kong and other such centers fostered. The fusion of these people with western developments, writers, etc.. have made for great movies by using good aspects from all cultures involved in the process.
All of those are good and valid complaints. I don't see Nintendo doing the HD media one though. To be frank, that has never been Nintendo's bag, and even though any PC and smart phone has more media playback features than the Wii, I wouldn't be surprised that Nintendo all but ignores the sector in their new generation. I hope I'm wrong of course, but oh well.
"D to. The Wii is still the number one seller out there, and has universal appeal"
I like my Wii, but I seriously question your assumption that the Wii have universal appeal. The lack of any decent multimedia features, the very weak online features, the lack of high def and the utter under power that the games are able to accomplish means that there are a ton of people that haven't been happy with the Wii. As for the top sellers distinction, here are some other examples: 1. GM was the biggest automaker with an absolutely obsolete product line. Their future is currently looking very bad. 2. Nokia is currently the top selling phone provider and top selling smart phone provider internationally. Does anyone think this will be the case in the near future?
Basically what I'm trying to say is that if Nintendo tries to ride their success for too long, they'll inevitably face the same problems that said companies have or will shortly encounter. GM was the top seller for 77 years and even they can fall. Do you really think that Nintendo is immune to failure? I'd say that all said the Game Cube was an utter failure for the company, and the Wii was its recovery. Will the Wii2 be its rise into top gamer and developer mind share, or will it continue to sit back on its established franchises and rake in the safe cash like they've largely been doing this gen? (They have innovated, and the wii fit was at least popular and outside of their standard mold).
"wasn't as much of an 'innovation', as the iPhone itself was to any phone preceeding it" I find it highly dubious to say that from the entire life of mobile cellular phones, the one single and distinctive watershed moment was the release of the iPhone 1. It may have been the most recent large shift in mobile phones, but by far not the biggest. I'd probably put that title on whomever first shipped a phone that used text messaging. Texting features: 99.9999% of handsets, used daily by billions of people.
I wouldn't say it was innovation that told Nintendo to not rev their chips. I think it was a gamble. If the Wii's control scheme was horrible then they'd shortly ditch it and move onto their 'next gen' console, but history was written differently and Nintendo can certainly be regarded as the winner in this console generation.
It probably comes down to innovation and litigious reasons. If I had to invent such a system, I'd use a dual LCD/touch system where the passenger had a separate control on their side of the car unreachable by all but the most reckless driver. The driver's panel would be disabled unless in park (automatics) or have the e-brake on for standards. The slight problem being that the system may be used while at a stop light can be a problem if legislators still consider this 'driving'. Stop lights still need the driver's attention, but it isn't life threatening if neglected, just careless.
Well, I'm glad to see that number going down though I must say that its probably in a large part due to mandatory safety standards in car manufacturing that are mandated to reduce auto related deaths. That said, I'd really like to see the accident rate put in opposition to this rate because it really gives a good indication of if cars are getting safer, or if drivers are driving better.
Why do people get so upset when an individual (prolific or no) that has a dumb opinion on an issue that is a real problem? If this is being passed into law, then you can start to complain about the sky falling, but really it is one man saying what they think, smart or no. No law past, no resolution for a law, just someone's opinion.
BTW: Does the US keep any kind of record of cell phone related accidents like correlating active calls at the time of accident? It would be interesting to see how many accidents are really caused in relation to live cell phone activities. That of course assuems that the individual wasn't just navigating/texting/etc.. which happens.
When was the last time you brought a hand gun into a school? Why ban them? We should only punish the nut jobs that cause the rampages and not everyone else who has a god given right to bear arms anywhere they like. Totally nanny state if you ask me.
Oh, wait, your argument is retarded, so thanks for playing. I think its proven that making calls (at least hands-on calls) while driving dramatically increases the chance of being in an accident. Why mandate seat belts? They only serve to increase your chances of living through an accident. I should be able to choose to die gloriously because I don't want to buckle up.
All that rhetoric aside, a blanket ban on cell phone transmissions from/in cars is a silly overbearing solution to a real problem. A fee/charge for using hands-on cell phones while driving is appropriate, and possibly hands-off if it really distracts people so much (statistically speaking).
Last night I saw an individual driving very poorly and of course when I passed them they had a pen and paper in hand writing notes while driving... distracted drivers cause accidents.
Is to write better queries, I mean how hard can it be:
select * from (select * from A,B,C,D,E,F,G WHERE A.ID=B.AID(+) AND B.ID=C.BID(+) AND C.ID=D.CID(+) AND D.ID=E.DID(+) AND E.ID=F.EID(+) AND F.ID=G.FID(+) order by F.name ASC) where F.name='zzzzz' Everything will work out, I swear.
Was that the one were they were walking through the trench? Yeah, it really set the tone of the movie and its characters early on which helped to illustrate the injustice of the later events. As with all good story telling, I never really noticed the shot because it seemed so natural.
Technique's the wrong word. All these things are tools, and you should only use tools where its appropriate. Abusing this idea can and will lead to bad movies. Frankly, the fact that bad movies get to see the light of day means that studios are comfortable with the fact that we will all go see crappy CGI movies enough to at least recoup some of their investment. Just think about the horrible abominations of movies have never seen the light of day. Eg. Queen of the Damned would never see the light of day if Aaliyah hadn't died.
Jar jar was frigging annoying, and I can never block out his hideous infection of every scene the character is in. The rest of the movie was mostly good baring the making of Anakin's character just a little too perfect and the eventual blending of actors and ages between ep1->ep2. Having Anakin's character add quite a few actor years and leave Padme the same was a notable and annoying friction.
I never really noticed the one take in children until the really really long one ay the end of the movie when they were walking behind Clive with the steady cam that gets blood squirted on it. That was one really long, and crazy choreographed scene which seems absolutely improbable to accomplish. That said, I think the idea is that you don't pick up on the effect and just have it appear as a piece of the movie. If you notice a filming technique during the (first) viewing, you may be very perceptive, or maybe its a flaw . Sometimes directors will use over emphasis on film techniques to drive home a point, or emotion (eg. The walking dead and Half-life 2 both have over emphasized blinding light when the protagonists first stepping into the light).
1. There are a ton of people who are ignorant and just plain stupid 2. God has never stepped in to smarten these guys up 3. You must be ignorant, diluted or just plain stupid to believe in god
Hence, god has to exist, and it makes ignorant, diluted or just plain stupid people in order to be loved. Case CLOSED!
Until Google decides to block Facebook IMAP harvesters for the same reason they did with the address book sync squabble. If facebook integrates mail from Google/others, why aren't facebook messaging services (send and receive) available from external sources?
Google doesn't JUST make money off the presentation of ads in their web interface. 1. They scrape the data to better utilize advertising to you when you're logged into other Google services 2. The analysis of your email/etc could allow for better heuristics to detect interesting patterns (I'm thinking about things like Goog411 as an example of this) 3. They could trivially put a rider on email provided through IMAP for any ad that they would normally host through the web page (with slight complications on the AdSense billing side, but not unmanageable)
For me, I rarely open my web mail tools anymore because my Android phone always notifies me of incoming email almost instantly. I usually just use the web interface of GMail to type out large emails that are unmanageable from the phone, or when I'm hunting for some old mail.
I doubt AMD or Intel feel much of a sting from the 4-5 million iPad units sold this year, but strategically, this is an area where both AMD and Intel have to start worrying about. There are a ton of low-end consumer spec devices growing rapidly in a highly volatile market of mobile phones and personal computing devices. This is an area where X86 systems have fared poorly. Intel and AMD need to find some magic to get themselves through the door before the market is so tight upon ARM arch that there's no hope for penetration.
How did they get here: 1. Intel blew their early adopter chances here when they dropped StrongArm/XScale years back. Maybe the licensing and profits were bad then, but it makes it a lot harder now to claw back into the sector 2. Intel bought into Atom big time, which combined with Windows put the chill on Linux/ARM based netbooks before it got enough traction to become 'a threat' to the status quo, though I doubt Intel makes nearly as much as it does when compared to a standard Notebook computer, residuals are better than nothing, though its yet to be seen just how low end (power and affordability) that Intel can scale down the chip line. 3. Both AMD and Intel are not seeing gigantic sales growth in PC CPU's or GPU's, so they need to look at other areas to continue to grow their businesses 4. With supporting Meego, at least AMD will gain compatibility for free instead of say investing in OHSA requiring the native pieces to be ported from ARM7 to X86 5. Nokia has been supporting Maemo as an also run Windows mobile type smart phone OS for a long time, and having iPhone, Android, WebOS, and WP7 absolutely blow their offerings out of the water means that something had to change with them. I'm not sure why they just can't pull something compelling together, but its hurting the company until they work on getting something. I personally think that bringing in Qt was a bad decision which has at least in a small part hindered efforts to get product to market.
Why this probably doesn't matter to consumers in the long run: 1. We have three large companies (AMD, Intel, Nokia) that are all considered dinosaurs of their industries who have very little impact on the software development or OS space to make me think that they can pull off a win in both areas of the scale needed for this product to do well 2. They have a large hurdle in getting X86 capable of competing on mobile computer-type devices at the same power efficiency that ARM chips seem to get for a lot less effort. They could license ARM which gets them part of the way, but then they get bit with higher royalties 3. In 2 years when the 'tablet computing' fad has largely blown off, Intel and AMD will realize that its just not that important to keep pushing down their marginal revenues until its just not worth the investment to keep with it. Nokia will either keep with Meego (and hopefully for them) make something substantial out of it for their phone platforms or just fumble along as they have with efforts like Symbian and further reduce their mind share and eventually their revenues
"In fact I have been boycotting all games that use Steam for that reason (and because they cannot be given, lent, traded or resold" Yup, unless the game publisher wanted to allow it (I'm sure Valve would allow it if the pub wanted it)
"because they do not work on machines without an Internet connection" Apparently there is offline mode. I've never used it because I have the internet on my PC, but whatever
"because I would like the option to install them in 10 years time if I feel like it" Anyone else see games pulled over time? I haven't. Half-life 2 came out in 2004 and I can still download and play it on any machine I'm logged into steam on.
"because I do not want that the distributor of the game has the option to remotelly disable my game at will" Hypothetically possible, but I don't see any publisher being self-suicidal
"It's just too bad that most game buyers out there are more than willing to bend-over and pull their pants down in exchange for prettier graphics" Vs. what exactly? The games that I buy on Steam are good games, and quite often the same or cheaper than boxed copies of the same thing. I find value in not needing to have boxed copies of software that end up gathering dust 90% of the time.
I think some of the things you listed -could- happen eventually, but not nearly as nefarious as you propose. Steam like many services are in an industry of trust. If we stop trusting Steam, more people will simply stop using it and force developers to stop using it through lack of sales like you seem to be so firm on doing. Developers and publishers hate (real) boycotts. If Steam ever becomes evil I'll stop using them. If you pulled your head out of your butt, you may start to see that the service works just fine as it is.
- Online achievements - The last save is uploaded to Valve so if you ever play on another computer it'll be there (disabled due to a bug after first patch) - You don't have to keep your install media if you bought a boxed copy because you can always download the full game from any computer you're logged into (Don't run simultaneously though, or risk getting banned). I killed no trees with my purchase, but maybe some coal was burned producing electricity for the grid. - Your friends can see that you're WAY to obsessed with the game by seeing you play it a lot - Better than Games for Windows Live which was in Fallout 3 (unless you're a 360 fanboy in which case this change is for the worse) - Most transparent and friendly DRM scheme I've ever dealt with (AKA I never notice / care about it)
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I'd think the disproportionately large libertarian minded audience in here would have immediately gravitated toward this. I mean when I took my first accounting course, one of the first things that they said was that hell would freeze over before governments start to release their balance sheets. If the data is even closely detailed, we are looking at what I'd hope to be a positive step in how governments manage themselves with the populace.
I never thought that so many of you here would be afraid or ultimately jaded about transparency and openness. *shudder* Maybe Steve Jobs has done a better job on you than I thought possible. *making plans to move into the woods and live off twigs and berries*
I love using actually. Actually, I think that's the greatest word in the English language; Though I agree with perfect storm. Perfect storm is to Intelligent Design as Destiny is to Creationism.
I'm sorry, why does a melting pot of ideas ultimately mean an inferior game in any way? I think you're jumping to subjective conclusions.
You can say that many or all of the great action movies of the last 20 years were all inspired by Asian martial arts and more specifically the high amount of skill and talent that Hong Kong and other such centers fostered. The fusion of these people with western developments, writers, etc.. have made for great movies by using good aspects from all cultures involved in the process.
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/wii?sort=desc
Apparently a lot of people disagree with you.
All of those are good and valid complaints. I don't see Nintendo doing the HD media one though. To be frank, that has never been Nintendo's bag, and even though any PC and smart phone has more media playback features than the Wii, I wouldn't be surprised that Nintendo all but ignores the sector in their new generation. I hope I'm wrong of course, but oh well.
A counter points to your argument:
"D to. The Wii is still the number one seller out there, and has universal appeal"
I like my Wii, but I seriously question your assumption that the Wii have universal appeal. The lack of any decent multimedia features, the very weak online features, the lack of high def and the utter under power that the games are able to accomplish means that there are a ton of people that haven't been happy with the Wii. As for the top sellers distinction, here are some other examples:
1. GM was the biggest automaker with an absolutely obsolete product line. Their future is currently looking very bad.
2. Nokia is currently the top selling phone provider and top selling smart phone provider internationally. Does anyone think this will be the case in the near future?
Basically what I'm trying to say is that if Nintendo tries to ride their success for too long, they'll inevitably face the same problems that said companies have or will shortly encounter. GM was the top seller for 77 years and even they can fall. Do you really think that Nintendo is immune to failure? I'd say that all said the Game Cube was an utter failure for the company, and the Wii was its recovery. Will the Wii2 be its rise into top gamer and developer mind share, or will it continue to sit back on its established franchises and rake in the safe cash like they've largely been doing this gen? (They have innovated, and the wii fit was at least popular and outside of their standard mold).
"wasn't as much of an 'innovation', as the iPhone itself was to any phone preceeding it"
I find it highly dubious to say that from the entire life of mobile cellular phones, the one single and distinctive watershed moment was the release of the iPhone 1. It may have been the most recent large shift in mobile phones, but by far not the biggest. I'd probably put that title on whomever first shipped a phone that used text messaging. Texting features: 99.9999% of handsets, used daily by billions of people.
I wouldn't say it was innovation that told Nintendo to not rev their chips. I think it was a gamble. If the Wii's control scheme was horrible then they'd shortly ditch it and move onto their 'next gen' console, but history was written differently and Nintendo can certainly be regarded as the winner in this console generation.
It probably comes down to innovation and litigious reasons. If I had to invent such a system, I'd use a dual LCD/touch system where the passenger had a separate control on their side of the car unreachable by all but the most reckless driver. The driver's panel would be disabled unless in park (automatics) or have the e-brake on for standards. The slight problem being that the system may be used while at a stop light can be a problem if legislators still consider this 'driving'. Stop lights still need the driver's attention, but it isn't life threatening if neglected, just careless.
Well, I'm glad to see that number going down though I must say that its probably in a large part due to mandatory safety standards in car manufacturing that are mandated to reduce auto related deaths. That said, I'd really like to see the accident rate put in opposition to this rate because it really gives a good indication of if cars are getting safer, or if drivers are driving better.
Why do people get so upset when an individual (prolific or no) that has a dumb opinion on an issue that is a real problem? If this is being passed into law, then you can start to complain about the sky falling, but really it is one man saying what they think, smart or no. No law past, no resolution for a law, just someone's opinion.
BTW: Does the US keep any kind of record of cell phone related accidents like correlating active calls at the time of accident? It would be interesting to see how many accidents are really caused in relation to live cell phone activities. That of course assuems that the individual wasn't just navigating/texting/etc.. which happens.
I think they limit signage height/dimensions in part because of this, nay?
When was the last time you brought a hand gun into a school? Why ban them? We should only punish the nut jobs that cause the rampages and not everyone else who has a god given right to bear arms anywhere they like. Totally nanny state if you ask me.
Oh, wait, your argument is retarded, so thanks for playing. I think its proven that making calls (at least hands-on calls) while driving dramatically increases the chance of being in an accident. Why mandate seat belts? They only serve to increase your chances of living through an accident. I should be able to choose to die gloriously because I don't want to buckle up.
All that rhetoric aside, a blanket ban on cell phone transmissions from/in cars is a silly overbearing solution to a real problem. A fee/charge for using hands-on cell phones while driving is appropriate, and possibly hands-off if it really distracts people so much (statistically speaking).
Last night I saw an individual driving very poorly and of course when I passed them they had a pen and paper in hand writing notes while driving... distracted drivers cause accidents.
Wow, that was a great video. Thanks for the link.
Is to write better queries, I mean how hard can it be:
select * from (select * from A,B,C,D,E,F,G WHERE A.ID=B.AID(+) AND B.ID=C.BID(+) AND C.ID=D.CID(+) AND D.ID=E.DID(+) AND E.ID=F.EID(+) AND F.ID=G.FID(+) order by F.name ASC) where F.name='zzzzz'
Everything will work out, I swear.
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Was that the one were they were walking through the trench? Yeah, it really set the tone of the movie and its characters early on which helped to illustrate the injustice of the later events. As with all good story telling, I never really noticed the shot because it seemed so natural.
Technique's the wrong word. All these things are tools, and you should only use tools where its appropriate. Abusing this idea can and will lead to bad movies. Frankly, the fact that bad movies get to see the light of day means that studios are comfortable with the fact that we will all go see crappy CGI movies enough to at least recoup some of their investment. Just think about the horrible abominations of movies have never seen the light of day. Eg. Queen of the Damned would never see the light of day if Aaliyah hadn't died.
Jar jar was frigging annoying, and I can never block out his hideous infection of every scene the character is in. The rest of the movie was mostly good baring the making of Anakin's character just a little too perfect and the eventual blending of actors and ages between ep1->ep2. Having Anakin's character add quite a few actor years and leave Padme the same was a notable and annoying friction.
I never really noticed the one take in children until the really really long one ay the end of the movie when they were walking behind Clive with the steady cam that gets blood squirted on it. That was one really long, and crazy choreographed scene which seems absolutely improbable to accomplish. That said, I think the idea is that you don't pick up on the effect and just have it appear as a piece of the movie. If you notice a filming technique during the (first) viewing, you may be very perceptive, or maybe its a flaw . Sometimes directors will use over emphasis on film techniques to drive home a point, or emotion (eg. The walking dead and Half-life 2 both have over emphasized blinding light when the protagonists first stepping into the light).
I'll go with this line of thinking:
1. There are a ton of people who are ignorant and just plain stupid
2. God has never stepped in to smarten these guys up
3. You must be ignorant, diluted or just plain stupid to believe in god
Hence, god has to exist, and it makes ignorant, diluted or just plain stupid people in order to be loved. Case CLOSED!
Until Google decides to block Facebook IMAP harvesters for the same reason they did with the address book sync squabble. If facebook integrates mail from Google/others, why aren't facebook messaging services (send and receive) available from external sources?
Google doesn't JUST make money off the presentation of ads in their web interface.
1. They scrape the data to better utilize advertising to you when you're logged into other Google services
2. The analysis of your email/etc could allow for better heuristics to detect interesting patterns (I'm thinking about things like Goog411 as an example of this)
3. They could trivially put a rider on email provided through IMAP for any ad that they would normally host through the web page (with slight complications on the AdSense billing side, but not unmanageable)
For me, I rarely open my web mail tools anymore because my Android phone always notifies me of incoming email almost instantly. I usually just use the web interface of GMail to type out large emails that are unmanageable from the phone, or when I'm hunting for some old mail.
I doubt AMD or Intel feel much of a sting from the 4-5 million iPad units sold this year, but strategically, this is an area where both AMD and Intel have to start worrying about. There are a ton of low-end consumer spec devices growing rapidly in a highly volatile market of mobile phones and personal computing devices. This is an area where X86 systems have fared poorly. Intel and AMD need to find some magic to get themselves through the door before the market is so tight upon ARM arch that there's no hope for penetration.
How did they get here:
1. Intel blew their early adopter chances here when they dropped StrongArm/XScale years back. Maybe the licensing and profits were bad then, but it makes it a lot harder now to claw back into the sector
2. Intel bought into Atom big time, which combined with Windows put the chill on Linux/ARM based netbooks before it got enough traction to become 'a threat' to the status quo, though I doubt Intel makes nearly as much as it does when compared to a standard Notebook computer, residuals are better than nothing, though its yet to be seen just how low end (power and affordability) that Intel can scale down the chip line.
3. Both AMD and Intel are not seeing gigantic sales growth in PC CPU's or GPU's, so they need to look at other areas to continue to grow their businesses
4. With supporting Meego, at least AMD will gain compatibility for free instead of say investing in OHSA requiring the native pieces to be ported from ARM7 to X86
5. Nokia has been supporting Maemo as an also run Windows mobile type smart phone OS for a long time, and having iPhone, Android, WebOS, and WP7 absolutely blow their offerings out of the water means that something had to change with them. I'm not sure why they just can't pull something compelling together, but its hurting the company until they work on getting something. I personally think that bringing in Qt was a bad decision which has at least in a small part hindered efforts to get product to market.
Why this probably doesn't matter to consumers in the long run:
1. We have three large companies (AMD, Intel, Nokia) that are all considered dinosaurs of their industries who have very little impact on the software development or OS space to make me think that they can pull off a win in both areas of the scale needed for this product to do well
2. They have a large hurdle in getting X86 capable of competing on mobile computer-type devices at the same power efficiency that ARM chips seem to get for a lot less effort. They could license ARM which gets them part of the way, but then they get bit with higher royalties
3. In 2 years when the 'tablet computing' fad has largely blown off, Intel and AMD will realize that its just not that important to keep pushing down their marginal revenues until its just not worth the investment to keep with it. Nokia will either keep with Meego (and hopefully for them) make something substantial out of it for their phone platforms or just fumble along as they have with efforts like Symbian and further reduce their mind share and eventually their revenues
"In fact I have been boycotting all games that use Steam for that reason (and because they cannot be given, lent, traded or resold"
Yup, unless the game publisher wanted to allow it (I'm sure Valve would allow it if the pub wanted it)
"because they do not work on machines without an Internet connection"
Apparently there is offline mode. I've never used it because I have the internet on my PC, but whatever
"because I would like the option to install them in 10 years time if I feel like it"
Anyone else see games pulled over time? I haven't. Half-life 2 came out in 2004 and I can still download and play it on any machine I'm logged into steam on.
"because I do not want that the distributor of the game has the option to remotelly disable my game at will"
Hypothetically possible, but I don't see any publisher being self-suicidal
"It's just too bad that most game buyers out there are more than willing to bend-over and pull their pants down in exchange for prettier graphics"
Vs. what exactly? The games that I buy on Steam are good games, and quite often the same or cheaper than boxed copies of the same thing. I find value in not needing to have boxed copies of software that end up gathering dust 90% of the time.
I think some of the things you listed -could- happen eventually, but not nearly as nefarious as you propose. Steam like many services are in an industry of trust. If we stop trusting Steam, more people will simply stop using it and force developers to stop using it through lack of sales like you seem to be so firm on doing. Developers and publishers hate (real) boycotts. If Steam ever becomes evil I'll stop using them. If you pulled your head out of your butt, you may start to see that the service works just fine as it is.
- Online achievements
- The last save is uploaded to Valve so if you ever play on another computer it'll be there (disabled due to a bug after first patch)
- You don't have to keep your install media if you bought a boxed copy because you can always download the full game from any computer you're logged into (Don't run simultaneously though, or risk getting banned). I killed no trees with my purchase, but maybe some coal was burned producing electricity for the grid.
- Your friends can see that you're WAY to obsessed with the game by seeing you play it a lot
- Better than Games for Windows Live which was in Fallout 3 (unless you're a 360 fanboy in which case this change is for the worse)
- Most transparent and friendly DRM scheme I've ever dealt with (AKA I never notice / care about it)
Its possible that they detect and actually stream out custom versions of the game's data files depending on the OS. Just a guess though.