Let me guess, it runs at only what? 154W of thermal dissipation instead of the lowly 150W the 3.2Ghz had?
Geez, maybe if I decide to go EE I'll just move to ALERT and "air cool" my design... that is... [for americans who don't know what Alert is because it wasn't part of some place you could blow up and therefore learn about in a half-ass fisherprice history text....] is a really really cold "cold war" radar station up north. The air is really really cold [as in below 14C for you wussy california types].
Fuck stupid Intel... hey how about sell us some desktop Pentium M's and get over the drug-crazed stupor of a lame excuse P4 line that is but all vapor and no substance.
You do realize that the USA does make money via exports too right? Holy crap moron. I bet if the world embargoed the USA you'd be flipping upset over it. Nice to see double standards so readily acceptable.
Here's a tip, don't vote for 30 different causes at once?
Canada may not be perfect [e.g. recent liberal scam] but at least when I goto the vote I know some french bastard will get voted in no matter what I do!
Then contact the developer of the game for the cd-key removal tool. Oh wait....It really is that simple though, if the game doesn't work you complain to the person who wrote the game [or you bought it from]. If there is no resolution that's when I'd say a hack is called for.
The point is that 99.9% of P2P is pirated content that the downloaders don't have the right to access. The producers should have a right to fight back by poisoning P2P apps [or at least their own apps on P2P].
If you've been wronged write a keygen and stand behind it [e.g. host it on your site]. When/if you get called on it just tell the opposing council "how about a counter-suit of fraud to go with your lawsuit?".
Um, what if you OCR King's latest novel and put it on your website? You can reach a huge audience, it can be transformed into Ebooks for virtually anything, etc...
I'm certain King's publishers wouldn't appreciate that even though you can do it with patience and a 49$ scanner.
As for "enforcing IP" what do you think lawsuits are about? If I catch you violating my rights you'll find yourself in court. I don't have to be a rich sob to sue you. I just have to be able to prove it. I think you're just spreading random rants in the hopes of looking intelligent.
Here in Canada our federal elections are um... simple... there are upto a half dozen candiates per riding, each on their own line of the ballot. You just mark an X beside the one you want to vote for.
No paper chads, dimples, etc... A fucking X people!!!
Seems American business ethics [re: shortcuts, lies, ignorance] is catching up with them. Muahahahahahaha!
"No, it's like saying "my V8 is out of tune so I'll buy some tools and alter it myself"."
Um no it isn't. You don't download keygens and full copies of programs off P2P to "tune up" your software. You do that to pirate it, to violate the rights of the producer and to be a little prick.
Seriously it comes down to spending power. If you think cd-keys are too much hassle, do without the program. Put the money you would spend on that into a high interest bond or something [well gather enough to buy a bond first...] and cash it in later.
You really don't need the "latest hip re-make of last years latest hip re-make of the year before latest hip re-make of..." game.
"Automobiles should be rigged with self-destruct explosives in the event of theft?"
Last I checked a virus on a home PC won't kill people. Note that some cars do have LoJack which allows cops to track you... is that violating the thiefs rights?
Um your views on "rights" are also troublesome. You're saying if I buy a 12$ paperback I now have publishing rights?
The only people who whine about IP like you do are minor little pathetic non-producers. If I spend time to produce something like a program, book, etc I should expect to have some rights over the distribution. I mean how else do you make money?
I agree with what you said about lack of games for Linux.
That's more reason [not less] to adopt Linux. Quite frankly most windows games suck anyways. My friend just bought Battlefield: Vietnam, he has 512MB of ram, 5600FX [GeForce from MSI], 2Ghz Athlon running WinXP. Let me tell you what "lag" is like..... arrg...
When I get a chance I'm going to buy UT2k4 because of the Linux support. I won't buy these Windows "enabled" cpu hog games [cuz they suck]. If I really want a game not on Linux I'll buy the PS2/Xbox version anyways...
If people just stopped for a second, realized that "the newest hip game" is just a remake of last years "newest hip game" and waited for developers to start making Linux ports you wouldn't have to pirate windows. With the money you save on MSFT hassles you can buy a few games a year;-)
That's like saying "my car's v8 is a little out of tune so I'll just steal another off the lot". Um no, you raise the issue with the person who sold you the defective product.
As for the inability for it to read it... um yeah annoying [so far only my laptop cd-rom has caused any sort of trouble]. A 50$ desktop dvd-cdrw drive should be able to read just about anything though so really this is a minor issue anyways. Certainly not an excuse for the 99.9% of the other pirates out there.
Besides as per the license terms of the producer you're not entitled to it that way anyways. Make your own game and put that on P2P if you're so into "sharing".
Piracy is just a means to theft. Just like having your buddy steal something for you then you steal it. You're still party to theft.
There are ways of "stealing" things that don't involve shoplifting.
As for SCO's claims they are just that. Anyone can claim shit. I have yet to see any proof that SCO's rights have been violated [recall they did release linux under GPL themselves...].
As for the "legit uses" claim [e.g. keygen, demo copy of winxp].... well too f'ing bad. Who are you to say I can't "test out" my latest virus?
You want a demo copy of windows? Contact microsoft. Want a keygen? Buy the software [or in the case of disabled key protected games do without! Don't support them, keep the key in a safe place, etc...]. Seriously, this is like getting advil from "that guy on the corner".
Let's not forget the rights of the producer. Suppose I wrote a game then I distributed a "copy" on Kazaa with a virus in it. I'm trying to protect my interests by hampering pirates of my software.
Who are you to say I can't do that? I mean I'm not forcing my virus on people. They're actively trying to violate my rights!!!
Self-defense all the way.
Ok how about this, mr. liberal, I'll go visit you and try to pick-pocket ya. But don't try to resist because that would be "wrong".
I mean honestly how do you complain about this? My Kazaa download of MS Office [retail price big] was munged with a virus!!!
Now you run to the cops to whine about it and... um.... what? They kiss your booboo all good?
I personally think this is a good thing. Maybe it will make people think twice before they waste gobs of bandwidth pirating software they should have either bought [cuz let's face it, piracy is theft. You're getting something, retail quality, you didn't pay for....hmm] or sought a replacement for.
Can't afford winxp? Get a linux distro. Can't afford Office? Get OpenOffice. Can't afford video games? Get a job. blah blah blah...
Point the same. I didn't know they made another duron. I gave up and wasted a helluvalot of money on a Barton 3000+ [partly for fun, partly for the cache].
While that certainly is true it isn't something only AMD does. I mean really what is "NetBurst" or "HyperThreading".
For all intents and purposes SMP can do multiple threads [better I might add] and it's not "Hyper".
You want to know how to buy a CPU? Goto about 10 diff review sites [ignore ones that just copy the back of the box] and form a scatter chart of what they all say. Take the average and go for it.
Best of all, know your needs. If you don't run render/compiler farms chances are you don't need a 350$ CPU. Heck you can get sufficient power for home comptuters (including developers) from a 40$ Duron Morgan core.
Ok so in the future we will know when a 100km diameter asteroid is gonna hit earth. Problem is, there is shitall we can do about it. I personally would rather not know when my time is up then sit and worry..
oh wait... screw that. If I knew the end of time was coming I'd l00t! Cuz that's what all good capitalist swine do!
Agreed about the hordes and the "must be OSS" rants. I think though that most zealots for OSS commercial games can be easily dismissed since the whole point of OSS is to allow people to augment/improve code but the whole point of commercial games is to have a boxed package you can sell.
As for anti-piracy you can't stop that. the only thing you can do is hinder it via things like online goodies, gaming, etc..
Of course I'd just buy the games since if they're worth 1GB of my disk space they're probably good and worth the 60$;-)
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First off, I'm not Canadian.
Second, it takes a big shot cannuck bastard to post as an AC... ooh big boy, too afraid to be associated with retard posts?
Tom
An even more overclocked crappy design...
Let me guess, it runs at only what? 154W of thermal dissipation instead of the lowly 150W the 3.2Ghz had?
Geez, maybe if I decide to go EE I'll just move to ALERT and "air cool" my design... that is... [for americans who don't know what Alert is because it wasn't part of some place you could blow up and therefore learn about in a half-ass fisherprice history text....] is a really really cold "cold war" radar station up north. The air is really really cold [as in below 14C for you wussy california types].
Fuck stupid Intel... hey how about sell us some desktop Pentium M's and get over the drug-crazed stupor of a lame excuse P4 line that is but all vapor and no substance.
Tom
Don't worry. You'll make up the $44 billion by selling arms to your next "enemy".
Besides you think being xenophobic is the solution to unfair trade with other nations you've bullied, er... encountered?
Tom
You do realize that the USA does make money via exports too right? Holy crap moron. I bet if the world embargoed the USA you'd be flipping upset over it. Nice to see double standards so readily acceptable.
Tom
Yes, sit back and get ripped off...
OR mess around with stupid kids computers and teach them a lesson...
Hmm...
Tom
Here's a tip, don't vote for 30 different causes at once?
Canada may not be perfect [e.g. recent liberal scam] but at least when I goto the vote I know some french bastard will get voted in no matter what I do!
Tom
So wouldn't you argue that poisoning P2P is a good self-defence for poorer developers?
Tom
If moose is a alias for "stupid damn quebecor" then yes I agree.
Tom
So your conclusions is people shouldn't have IP rights because assholes like you could just violate them easily?
Hmm... seems american to me.
It might be cold here, we might have a french province but at least.... oh fuck it I'm ordering pizza...
Tom
Then contact the developer of the game for the cd-key removal tool. Oh wait....It really is that simple though, if the game doesn't work you complain to the person who wrote the game [or you bought it from]. If there is no resolution that's when I'd say a hack is called for.
The point is that 99.9% of P2P is pirated content that the downloaders don't have the right to access. The producers should have a right to fight back by poisoning P2P apps [or at least their own apps on P2P].
If you've been wronged write a keygen and stand behind it [e.g. host it on your site]. When/if you get called on it just tell the opposing council "how about a counter-suit of fraud to go with your lawsuit?".
Tom
Um, what if you OCR King's latest novel and put it on your website? You can reach a huge audience, it can be transformed into Ebooks for virtually anything, etc...
I'm certain King's publishers wouldn't appreciate that even though you can do it with patience and a 49$ scanner.
As for "enforcing IP" what do you think lawsuits are about? If I catch you violating my rights you'll find yourself in court. I don't have to be a rich sob to sue you. I just have to be able to prove it. I think you're just spreading random rants in the hopes of looking intelligent.
You fail it.
Tom
Here in Canada our federal elections are um... simple... there are upto a half dozen candiates per riding, each on their own line of the ballot. You just mark an X beside the one you want to vote for.
No paper chads, dimples, etc... A fucking X people!!!
Seems American business ethics [re: shortcuts, lies, ignorance] is catching up with them. Muahahahahahaha!
Tom
"No, it's like saying "my V8 is out of tune so I'll buy some tools and alter it myself"."
..." game.
Um no it isn't. You don't download keygens and full copies of programs off P2P to "tune up" your software. You do that to pirate it, to violate the rights of the producer and to be a little prick.
Seriously it comes down to spending power. If you think cd-keys are too much hassle, do without the program. Put the money you would spend on that into a high interest bond or something [well gather enough to buy a bond first...] and cash it in later.
You really don't need the "latest hip re-make of last years latest hip re-make of the year before latest hip re-make of
Tom
"Automobiles should be rigged with self-destruct explosives in the event of theft?"
Last I checked a virus on a home PC won't kill people. Note that some cars do have LoJack which allows cops to track you... is that violating the thiefs rights?
Um your views on "rights" are also troublesome. You're saying if I buy a 12$ paperback I now have publishing rights?
The only people who whine about IP like you do are minor little pathetic non-producers. If I spend time to produce something like a program, book, etc I should expect to have some rights over the distribution. I mean how else do you make money?
Tom
I agree with what you said about lack of games for Linux.
;-)
That's more reason [not less] to adopt Linux. Quite frankly most windows games suck anyways. My friend just bought Battlefield: Vietnam, he has 512MB of ram, 5600FX [GeForce from MSI], 2Ghz Athlon running WinXP. Let me tell you what "lag" is like..... arrg...
When I get a chance I'm going to buy UT2k4 because of the Linux support. I won't buy these Windows "enabled" cpu hog games [cuz they suck]. If I really want a game not on Linux I'll buy the PS2/Xbox version anyways...
If people just stopped for a second, realized that "the newest hip game" is just a remake of last years "newest hip game" and waited for developers to start making Linux ports you wouldn't have to pirate windows. With the money you save on MSFT hassles you can buy a few games a year
Tom
Return it, don't sponsor it, call support, etc...
That's like saying "my car's v8 is a little out of tune so I'll just steal another off the lot". Um no, you raise the issue with the person who sold you the defective product.
As for the inability for it to read it... um yeah annoying [so far only my laptop cd-rom has caused any sort of trouble]. A 50$ desktop dvd-cdrw drive should be able to read just about anything though so really this is a minor issue anyways. Certainly not an excuse for the 99.9% of the other pirates out there.
Besides as per the license terms of the producer you're not entitled to it that way anyways. Make your own game and put that on P2P if you're so into "sharing".
Tom
Piracy is just a means to theft. Just like having your buddy steal something for you then you steal it. You're still party to theft.
There are ways of "stealing" things that don't involve shoplifting.
As for SCO's claims they are just that. Anyone can claim shit. I have yet to see any proof that SCO's rights have been violated [recall they did release linux under GPL themselves...].
As for the "legit uses" claim [e.g. keygen, demo copy of winxp].... well too f'ing bad. Who are you to say I can't "test out" my latest virus?
You want a demo copy of windows? Contact microsoft. Want a keygen? Buy the software [or in the case of disabled key protected games do without! Don't support them, keep the key in a safe place, etc...]. Seriously, this is like getting advil from "that guy on the corner".
Let's not forget the rights of the producer. Suppose I wrote a game then I distributed a "copy" on Kazaa with a virus in it. I'm trying to protect my interests by hampering pirates of my software.
Who are you to say I can't do that? I mean I'm not forcing my virus on people. They're actively trying to violate my rights!!!
Self-defense all the way.
Ok how about this, mr. liberal, I'll go visit you and try to pick-pocket ya. But don't try to resist because that would be "wrong".
Tom
Oh here's a tip, don't pirate software morons.
... um.... what? They kiss your booboo all good?
I mean honestly how do you complain about this? My Kazaa download of MS Office [retail price big] was munged with a virus!!!
Now you run to the cops to whine about it and
I personally think this is a good thing. Maybe it will make people think twice before they waste gobs of bandwidth pirating software they should have either bought [cuz let's face it, piracy is theft. You're getting something, retail quality, you didn't pay for....hmm] or sought a replacement for.
Can't afford winxp? Get a linux distro. Can't afford Office? Get OpenOffice. Can't afford video games? Get a job. blah blah blah...
Tom
Tom Log: August 28th, 1997.
You fail it.
Humans create virii. Stupid users let it run endlessly on their P4 3Ghz 1GB Ram broadband enabled PCs.
Skynet is not active. All is calm.
Tom
[And if I messed up the judgement day date fuck you, it's a movie, it's a joke, fuck you!]
these "dangerous people" traveling in the air are the fucking politicians making these ass raping invasive laws that OTHER people have to live with.
Fuck, ban them from air travel.
Tom
Those who change will survive. E.g. learn to patch your system, avoid insecure behaviour and tighten up your network [e.g. firewall, NAT, etc...].
Those who don't will find their computer experience horrible and "die off" as far as the market is concerned.
Tom
Point the same. I didn't know they made another duron. I gave up and wasted a helluvalot of money on a Barton 3000+ [partly for fun, partly for the cache].
Tom
While that certainly is true it isn't something only AMD does. I mean really what is "NetBurst" or "HyperThreading".
For all intents and purposes SMP can do multiple threads [better I might add] and it's not "Hyper".
You want to know how to buy a CPU? Goto about 10 diff review sites [ignore ones that just copy the back of the box] and form a scatter chart of what they all say. Take the average and go for it.
Best of all, know your needs. If you don't run render/compiler farms chances are you don't need a 350$ CPU. Heck you can get sufficient power for home comptuters (including developers) from a 40$ Duron Morgan core.
Tom
Ok so in the future we will know when a 100km diameter asteroid is gonna hit earth. Problem is, there is shitall we can do about it. I personally would rather not know when my time is up then sit and worry..
oh wait... screw that. If I knew the end of time was coming I'd l00t! Cuz that's what all good capitalist swine do!
Tom
Agreed about the hordes and the "must be OSS" rants. I think though that most zealots for OSS commercial games can be easily dismissed since the whole point of OSS is to allow people to augment/improve code but the whole point of commercial games is to have a boxed package you can sell.
;-)
As for anti-piracy you can't stop that. the only thing you can do is hinder it via things like online goodies, gaming, etc..
Of course I'd just buy the games since if they're worth 1GB of my disk space they're probably good and worth the 60$
Tom