Why would a game development firm have the programmers open incoming e-mail ? They are busy enough trying to get the game out before christmas. PR department opens the e-mail - you just can't trust the developers to think of PR when responding to some flamebait letter after an all-nighter. And why, oh why would the programmer have Excel on the development machine ?
Watching the start of Serenity has made me even more determined to watch the full film......but I can't.
The premiere date here is in December. I'll probably end up downloading it instead of waiting any longer than I already have. Which is kind of ironic, since I am willing to pay to see this movie, here, now. But there aren't anybody around to take up my offer. So I turn to the pirates, which offer it for free, and can deliver faster than any legitimate channels.
When will the media companies learn that the globe is just a little bit bigger than the United States of America?
The XBox also has analog shoulder buttons, and in certain cases they feel better than the Gamecube ones. (Racing games comes to mind)
Actually, a lot of the buttons on modern controllers are analog. I know the right-side buttons on both the Dualshock and the XBox controller are analog, don't know if the cube has them too.
Not true. Since the worms started flying around, I am willing to bet that the number of attacks from the outside are two or more magnitudes higher than the number of attacks from the inside.
Targeted attacks, however, is an entirely different beast.
Be glad you live on that side of the pond. If we continental europeans switch our PSUs from 220V to 110V, we get a nice, smoke-filled room with a side dish of fried motherboard.
Well, if a current user is already logged in (But the workstation is locked), the filesystem is already mounted. You could then with this USB exploit access the whole filesystem easily.
Oh, this wasn't pointed at NCSoft, who surprised me with their global launch of Guild Wars. Other game companies, however, seems to feel Europe is some shithole that should be eternally grateful for every game we get (Both MMO and non-MMO).
When we launched in the U.S. we noticed there were about 20 million online subscriber gamers in Asia, about two million in the U.S. and about 200,000 in Europe, Garriott explains. Every time you move east, you lose 90 percent. How can we change that? Issues like broadband expansion are outside our control but we can influence genre expansion, appealing to new age groups, ease of play, and billing methods.
You can also change it by actually give us games at the same time as the rest of the world, with servers that doesn't make the experience feel like we're back in the 56K age.
I'm doing a bit of copying for my friends, and every time I burn a DVD I ask for a few bucks to cover the media and my time burning. Now, I would charge the exact same amount even if I were burning out something completely legitimate, like Linux ISOs. In my eyes they aren't charged for what's on those DVDs, they are paying for the media and labour involved.
So, are my friends (and probably the people in the article) really paying for the pirated software?
The problem is that you can't pin the blame for this on ignorance or bad parenting. I think a huge part of the problem is that parents don't equate games with other forms of entertainment, like movies. They still think of games as something that's only for children, and then ratings are ignored. "Yeah, it says eighteen, but it must be OK, because it's a GAME, and those are made for kids, right?" This also explains the huge outrage that leads to headlines like "Hookers getting killed in video game", while no recent newspaper has had a headline of "Hookers getting killed in latest movie".
This misconception will be hard to change, but hopefully it will be gone in a generation, when us modern gamers become parents ourselves.
Boycotts are useless here. If enough people do it, to the point where the **AA actually take notice, they'll just claim the lower sales obviously are a result of piracy. It's a lose-lose situation.
I don't know exactly the system on the Spectrums, but on the Commodore line of computers, the datasette was a rather fine-tuned and special beast. But if you don't believe me, ask the experts.
You can't do a good job with a standard cassette player. Believe me, I've tried. Too much noise and distortion of the signal makes it unusable. Using original hardware, however, gives a clear and near-perfect signal, even after a decade.
It can't but that's not what's happening, people are used to downloading ZIP files, which are often self-extracting;
No they're not. A ZIP file is never self-exctracting, because then by definition it isn't a ZIP file anymore. (File with extension ending in.zip, containing PKZIP structure, openable by any PKZIP compatible program)
Stop using this damn dumb defense!You downloaded 60 gigabytes of Linux. I downloaded 60 gigabytes of copyrighted material. And there are dozens of people like me for every one like you.
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Why would a game development firm have the programmers open incoming e-mail ? They are busy enough trying to get the game out before christmas. PR department opens the e-mail - you just can't trust the developers to think of PR when responding to some flamebait letter after an all-nighter. And why, oh why would the programmer have Excel on the development machine ?
Why don't you ask Valve those questions?
ISO images can only contain a single track. Since Red Book requires multiple tracks, you can't have that format in a ISO image.
Americans and Europeans aren't that different, you know.
Watching the start of Serenity has made me even more determined to watch the full film... ...but I can't.
The premiere date here is in December. I'll probably end up downloading it instead of waiting any longer than I already have. Which is kind of ironic, since I am willing to pay to see this movie, here, now. But there aren't anybody around to take up my offer. So I turn to the pirates, which offer it for free, and can deliver faster than any legitimate channels.
When will the media companies learn that the globe is just a little bit bigger than the United States of America?
The XBox also has analog shoulder buttons, and in certain cases they feel better than the Gamecube ones. (Racing games comes to mind)
Actually, a lot of the buttons on modern controllers are analog. I know the right-side buttons on both the Dualshock and the XBox controller are analog, don't know if the cube has them too.
Not true. Since the worms started flying around, I am willing to bet that the number of attacks from the outside are two or more magnitudes higher than the number of attacks from the inside.
Targeted attacks, however, is an entirely different beast.
The point is that the Keytronic keyboard the grandparent linked to had different pressure weights. Just like the one in this slashvertisement.
Be glad you live on that side of the pond. If we continental europeans switch our PSUs from 220V to 110V, we get a nice, smoke-filled room with a side dish of fried motherboard.
Educating teenagers about and giving out free contraceptives would put a huge dent in that number.
Welcome to the wonderful world of lossy compression. Google for WMVHD and H.264 - it's real.
Well, if a current user is already logged in (But the workstation is locked), the filesystem is already mounted. You could then with this USB exploit access the whole filesystem easily.
Oh, this wasn't pointed at NCSoft, who surprised me with their global launch of Guild Wars. Other game companies, however, seems to feel Europe is some shithole that should be eternally grateful for every game we get (Both MMO and non-MMO).
When we launched in the U.S. we noticed there were about 20 million online subscriber gamers in Asia, about two million in the U.S. and about 200,000 in Europe, Garriott explains. Every time you move east, you lose 90 percent. How can we change that? Issues like broadband expansion are outside our control but we can influence genre expansion, appealing to new age groups, ease of play, and billing methods.
You can also change it by actually give us games at the same time as the rest of the world, with servers that doesn't make the experience feel like we're back in the 56K age.
You know there are handicaps that affect other parts of the body than the legs, right? ...right?
Yes, it does. And therefore the EU version has censored that part, replacing the soldier with a zombie.
Thankfully, both the sex minigame and the boobies are still there in their full glory.
Well, what I ask for is practically nothing too, around $3. Too much?
I'm doing a bit of copying for my friends, and every time I burn a DVD I ask for a few bucks to cover the media and my time burning. Now, I would charge the exact same amount even if I were burning out something completely legitimate, like Linux ISOs. In my eyes they aren't charged for what's on those DVDs, they are paying for the media and labour involved.
So, are my friends (and probably the people in the article) really paying for the pirated software?
The problem is that you can't pin the blame for this on ignorance or bad parenting. I think a huge part of the problem is that parents don't equate games with other forms of entertainment, like movies. They still think of games as something that's only for children, and then ratings are ignored. "Yeah, it says eighteen, but it must be OK, because it's a GAME, and those are made for kids, right?" This also explains the huge outrage that leads to headlines like "Hookers getting killed in video game", while no recent newspaper has had a headline of "Hookers getting killed in latest movie".
This misconception will be hard to change, but hopefully it will be gone in a generation, when us modern gamers become parents ourselves.
Boycotts are useless here. If enough people do it, to the point where the **AA actually take notice, they'll just claim the lower sales obviously are a result of piracy. It's a lose-lose situation.
I don't know exactly the system on the Spectrums, but on the Commodore line of computers, the datasette was a rather fine-tuned and special beast. But if you don't believe me, ask the experts.
Eggdrops have as much in common with these trojan networks as chickens have with the planet Uranus. Two completely different systems.
You can't do a good job with a standard cassette player. Believe me, I've tried. Too much noise and distortion of the signal makes it unusable. Using original hardware, however, gives a clear and near-perfect signal, even after a decade.
You obviously aren't familiar with the channel flag +s (secret).
It can't but that's not what's happening, people are used to downloading ZIP files, which are often self-extracting;
.zip, containing PKZIP structure, openable by any PKZIP compatible program)
No they're not. A ZIP file is never self-exctracting, because then by definition it isn't a ZIP file anymore. (File with extension ending in
Stop using this damn dumb defense! You downloaded 60 gigabytes of Linux. I downloaded 60 gigabytes of copyrighted material. And there are dozens of people like me for every one like you.