What options would you use for extracting an audio layer other than the default, or for adding subtitles. For example, if I want to extract an anime in Japanese instead of the default English dub, and use the built in subtitles.
You'd probably have to be downloading to or uploading directly from the Microsoft torrent. If you were never a seed (say, if you decided that wasn't a good idea to be doing) and had a small pipe, you're more likely to have escaped notice, I imagine. But not not completely safe, I wouldn't think.
I dunno, I kind of look at it like Highlander fans tend to look at Highlander 2 and 3. If you hate the story, just ignore it. No one says you have to buy it or even acknowledge it exists. The console gaming market didn't turn Deus Ex 2 into a steaming crapfest. The people who decided that it should be for console primarily did.
Microsoft I have no problem hating. I'm sure they're part of the problem here. I was furious at Microsoft for buying off Sega to screw over Dreamcast owners on the US release of Shenmue 2 by making it an Xbox exclusive. Ditto on Jet Set Radio Future. Eidos/Ion Storm are the ones calling the shots here, and they're the ones that deserve the derision, not consoles in general. Hell, I'm working to wean myself off of PC gaming because I'm working to wean myself off of Microsoft products altogether, 'cause you can't play PC games on anything but Windows. WineX doesn't work enough for me, so the only thing left is consoles.
I don't argue any of that. I'm EXTREMELY dubious about the new Thief, and frankly, I have been ever since Looking Glass went away, but I can still keep playing the old stuff and just not bother with Thief 3. Voting with my wallet.
I still play Thief 1 and 2 pretty regularly, and if people just make more missions for it, I don't see, in the end, a real problem. Sure I'd like to have a better graphicsed version of 1 and 2, but I'll still take what I have with people making new stuff for it. Hell, I've played Half Life mods for as long as I've played Thief. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, I'll be angry if the new one sucks, but angry isn't near the kind of bile that people lately seem to be heaping on stuff lately. They didn't slit your brother's throat, they made a crappy sequel.
Well, it's not especially funny, because it merely stokes the hordes of mindless people who froth at the mouth over console games. It's stupid to get wrapped up in a franchise so much that when it goes a different direction, you get enraged.
Me, I didn't like Deus Ex 1, so I wasn't going to be buying Deus Ex 2 in any case. I have played and enjoyed Thief 1 and 2 a lot (like, two of my favorite games ever), and the previews for Thief 3 haven't yet convinced me to buy it. I may download a demo, but I don't know if I even want to bother wasting the bandwidth on that. If I don't like it, I'll buy something else. People who steal games they claim to not like confuse me. If you don't like it, why in the world do you bother wasting disk space on it?
I heartily disagree with regard to.hack. A very long RPG strung out into four shorter RPGs is exactly what the doctor ordered, at least in my book. For one thing, it makes it a hell of a lot more likely that I'll actually complete the storyline..hack all told is a, what, 70 hour storyline if you don't rush through it? Maybe I'm just not hardcore enough, but I don't think even back when I had scads of free time lying around that I'd have ever gotten through a 70+ hour storyline. Baldur's Gate 2 lies still unfinished because every time I've picked it up, by the time I get anywhere my Windows partition has gone loopy enough that I have to reformat..hack lets me get a nice long storyline under my belt in manageable parts. Hell, you can beat each game in a weekend's rental. Try that with just about any other RPG if you plan on getting sleep. Lets you play other games in between without forgetting about the storyline, or which castle of the evil whatever you need to be storming, or who the hell the people in your party are, and what they do.
The universe is described by complicated equations wrought by the human mind.
More like:
Various human beings have thought they knew the one true answer to how the universe looks and works, and every single one of them to date has been proven wrong.
Now, in my opinion, the more interesting question here involves how to hide this from one's ISP (ie, make it snoop-proof).
Fairly simple.
Introduce garbage knocks in the knock sequence. Only knocks 2 5 7 and 12 are important, everything else is crap. Then change where the garbage knocks are after every connection. Then add a third rotation of different key ports. You'll be able to sniff it all, but it will be much much harder for a person to pick out any kind of pattern.
I sound a lot like this guy. 7 years younger, but getting on the Pro Tour is something I'd really like to do, and Magic is a game I've loved playing, even when I had to stop because I just couldn't afford it any more. Now that I'm somewhat an adult, and can trade and bargain hunt for the cards I want and need, I've gotten back into it, and I honestly haven't had this much fun since I used to play Magic beforehand. I have no illusions that I'm going to make money off the Pro Tour if I ever get on one. I have no illusions that my skill with the game is going to turn into a decent career, either talking about the game like Kibler does, or playing it like...hardly anyone does.
What can be done, is turn skill at the game into paying for the game, or at least a significant portion of it. The $20-$30 I spend weekly on small constructed tournaments and limited events is a far better use of my money than spending likely twice that going to bars. I spend some on singles, but worth it as far as I care, as I'm a stingy (but fair) trader, and have a fairly good eye at what's going to be hot and what's not in the future. Don't bet the farm on me, but I've been pretty damn lucky so far. I spend money on singles when I can, let the store owner who I know rip me off in trades because I want him to stay making money and in business. Buy boxes of cards for $20 more than the lowest price I can find from him for the same reason. I'd love to be on the Pro Tour, love to get invited to Nationals, love to get to Worlds. Love to win that. Love to do it with a team like the Your Move Games people. Do I think I will? Nope, but I'm not going to stop shooting for that dream just because I'll likely never make it. Might as well someone who loves basketball to stop playing it because they'll never make the big time.
Kibler is currently a regular on the Pro Tour, and is the head editor at Brainburst.com. Writes a lot of good articles. Great deckbuilder. One of the few Pro Tour players I would love to meet, because he seems fairly down to earth and a decent guy. Him and Kai Budde are the two Pro Tour regulars I'd like to meet and annoy the crap out of asking their opinions on everything Magic.
"Whoever has the most money can buy the best deck that wins instantly. I see it happen all the time at the store."
Depends on the environment you play in. Hell, even the basic game rules have changed to a great degree since you were playing. Whole new ball of wax. If you think skill doesn't determine who wins, you pick any deck you want, I'll play you with one of my cheapie decks and we'll see how fast you win.
If people are more concerned with spam than losing some legitimate e-mails, and the prevailing attitude here that people are generally more concerned with spam than the murder rate in their particular locale, then a whitelist is the ONLY surefire way to not get any of it.
Which is an attack on an ISP's business. They certainly suggest that you use their list to block those ISPs and then hurt that ISP's business. That's taking punishment into their own hands. Justified or not, it's vigilantism.
UbiSoft are the same bunch of worthless publishers that released Pool of Radiance 2 with the infamous "erase your hard drive if you uninstall it" bug, along with a host of other less publicized crapfests. I've only bought one UbiSoft game (Warlords Battlecry II) since their pathetic "quality assurance" department thoughtfully erased my C: drive for me, and I see no reason to ever give any more money to that company, no matter how good anyone claims the games they make now are.
Gameday is 'teh standard' as far as this particular bit is concerned. Sony's done this for 8 years and it's predicted the winner every damn time. As a Pats fan, I was nervous about the underdog Panthers before, and I'm even more nervous now that Troy lost the Gameday battle.
Embarassed to admit it, but 8 years of correlation is hard to put aside. I'd love it if the Pats proved me wrong (one of the few times I would enjoy being wrong) but I dunno... Hope they do.
Bunch of people already saying the same thing, but I might as well raise the decibel level a notch.
I don't even watch TV shows I want to see anymore. I love Iron Chef, Adult Swim, a lot of what's on public television, and as much as I'd like to see them, I frankly can't be bothered with it. Too many ads. Even on PBS, the first and last 5 minutes of any particular show are merely thinly veiled advertising, it seems. Not to mention the month long pledge drives and TV auctions.
I used to be glued to the TV, and now it's a worthless adfest. I go over to friends' houses and they turn the TV off because the constant ad barrage puts me visibly in a bad mood. Nothing I asked them to do, they just do it themselves, most of them inveterate TV watchers. Every so often I'll have PBS on when I'm sick of whatever video game I'm playing, or can't think of a DVD I'd like to watch, but my network television watching is strictly limited to important sports events (Go Pats!) but even then, I mute the commercials, and sometimes miss large sections of the game because I didn't realize the TV was still on.
My father is paying for the cable TV subscription coming into my apartment against my fervent protestation that I'd never use it, and I haven't. The odd Iron Chef episode when I remember to turn it on. Adult Swim when I remember it exists, which isn't often. PBS, because in the Greater boston area, PBS just doesn't come in over rabbit ears unless it's the one from New Hampshire, but it can't be worth the approx $45/month my father is paying for it. However he stubbornly believes that he's doing me a favor. *shrugs* Whatever.
So beware this discovery of games by Madison Avenue: prepare to find the games you've paid for to interrupt your play for commercials, or to sacrifice playability to product placements.
So I'll just wait for someone to pirate the game and tell me whether it's an ad game or not.;)
If you do, say what you believe. It may be hard on you, but it will probably be better on the company, and who knows, you might actually get recognized for taking a principled stand. It's been known to happen.
If you don't care about the company you work for, and it's just a job, I wouldn't give it a second thought. Enjoy the free food. Applaud when necessary and keep your head down and don't speak unless spoken to.
I care about the company I work for now, but that company happens to employ a grand total of two people, including my father. I foolishly cared about the major IT company I worked for previously and it came to nothing. No way a pissant tech like me was going to make anyone else start caring. Should've just ridden the party boat as long as I could.
"I work in TV where commercials pay the freight. Is this so wrong on the net?"
No. If you don't like it that much, make a note of the websites that use this "technology", and don't visit them in the future. If you have to, use an hosts file to have any links to those sites you unknowingly click on routed to your machine, or some other web site. You don't even have to be a super computer genius to do it.
I certainly plan to never again visit a site that I find is using this stuff. They obviously don't care for me being there, and I don't care to be there, so it works out in the end.
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What options would you use for extracting an audio layer other than the default, or for adding subtitles. For example, if I want to extract an anime in Japanese instead of the default English dub, and use the built in subtitles.
Is there a way to do that?
You'd probably have to be downloading to or uploading directly from the Microsoft torrent. If you were never a seed (say, if you decided that wasn't a good idea to be doing) and had a small pipe, you're more likely to have escaped notice, I imagine. But not not completely safe, I wouldn't think.
Right....because it's never going to be ready.
I dunno, I kind of look at it like Highlander fans tend to look at Highlander 2 and 3. If you hate the story, just ignore it. No one says you have to buy it or even acknowledge it exists. The console gaming market didn't turn Deus Ex 2 into a steaming crapfest. The people who decided that it should be for console primarily did.
Microsoft I have no problem hating. I'm sure they're part of the problem here. I was furious at Microsoft for buying off Sega to screw over Dreamcast owners on the US release of Shenmue 2 by making it an Xbox exclusive. Ditto on Jet Set Radio Future. Eidos/Ion Storm are the ones calling the shots here, and they're the ones that deserve the derision, not consoles in general. Hell, I'm working to wean myself off of PC gaming because I'm working to wean myself off of Microsoft products altogether, 'cause you can't play PC games on anything but Windows. WineX doesn't work enough for me, so the only thing left is consoles.
I don't argue any of that. I'm EXTREMELY dubious about the new Thief, and frankly, I have been ever since Looking Glass went away, but I can still keep playing the old stuff and just not bother with Thief 3. Voting with my wallet.
I still play Thief 1 and 2 pretty regularly, and if people just make more missions for it, I don't see, in the end, a real problem. Sure I'd like to have a better graphicsed version of 1 and 2, but I'll still take what I have with people making new stuff for it. Hell, I've played Half Life mods for as long as I've played Thief. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, I'll be angry if the new one sucks, but angry isn't near the kind of bile that people lately seem to be heaping on stuff lately. They didn't slit your brother's throat, they made a crappy sequel.
Well, it's not especially funny, because it merely stokes the hordes of mindless people who froth at the mouth over console games. It's stupid to get wrapped up in a franchise so much that when it goes a different direction, you get enraged.
Me, I didn't like Deus Ex 1, so I wasn't going to be buying Deus Ex 2 in any case. I have played and enjoyed Thief 1 and 2 a lot (like, two of my favorite games ever), and the previews for Thief 3 haven't yet convinced me to buy it. I may download a demo, but I don't know if I even want to bother wasting the bandwidth on that. If I don't like it, I'll buy something else. People who steal games they claim to not like confuse me. If you don't like it, why in the world do you bother wasting disk space on it?
"Generally speaking, it is sufficient for them to prove "access" to the copyrighted work..."
Well, doesn't this currently mean just about anyone on the planet with an Internet connection?
Waste bandwidth on it? No thanks. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I heartily disagree with regard to .hack. A very long RPG strung out into four shorter RPGs is exactly what the doctor ordered, at least in my book. For one thing, it makes it a hell of a lot more likely that I'll actually complete the storyline. .hack all told is a, what, 70 hour storyline if you don't rush through it? Maybe I'm just not hardcore enough, but I don't think even back when I had scads of free time lying around that I'd have ever gotten through a 70+ hour storyline. Baldur's Gate 2 lies still unfinished because every time I've picked it up, by the time I get anywhere my Windows partition has gone loopy enough that I have to reformat. .hack lets me get a nice long storyline under my belt in manageable parts. Hell, you can beat each game in a weekend's rental. Try that with just about any other RPG if you plan on getting sleep. Lets you play other games in between without forgetting about the storyline, or which castle of the evil whatever you need to be storming, or who the hell the people in your party are, and what they do.
The universe is described by complicated equations wrought by the human mind.
More like:
Various human beings have thought they knew the one true answer to how the universe looks and works, and every single one of them to date has been proven wrong.
Now, in my opinion, the more interesting question here involves how to hide this from one's ISP (ie, make it snoop-proof).
Fairly simple.
Introduce garbage knocks in the knock sequence. Only knocks 2 5 7 and 12 are important, everything else is crap. Then change where the garbage knocks are after every connection. Then add a third rotation of different key ports. You'll be able to sniff it all, but it will be much much harder for a person to pick out any kind of pattern.
I sound a lot like this guy. 7 years younger, but getting on the Pro Tour is something I'd really like to do, and Magic is a game I've loved playing, even when I had to stop because I just couldn't afford it any more. Now that I'm somewhat an adult, and can trade and bargain hunt for the cards I want and need, I've gotten back into it, and I honestly haven't had this much fun since I used to play Magic beforehand. I have no illusions that I'm going to make money off the Pro Tour if I ever get on one. I have no illusions that my skill with the game is going to turn into a decent career, either talking about the game like Kibler does, or playing it like...hardly anyone does.
What can be done, is turn skill at the game into paying for the game, or at least a significant portion of it. The $20-$30 I spend weekly on small constructed tournaments and limited events is a far better use of my money than spending likely twice that going to bars. I spend some on singles, but worth it as far as I care, as I'm a stingy (but fair) trader, and have a fairly good eye at what's going to be hot and what's not in the future. Don't bet the farm on me, but I've been pretty damn lucky so far. I spend money on singles when I can, let the store owner who I know rip me off in trades because I want him to stay making money and in business. Buy boxes of cards for $20 more than the lowest price I can find from him for the same reason. I'd love to be on the Pro Tour, love to get invited to Nationals, love to get to Worlds. Love to win that. Love to do it with a team like the Your Move Games people. Do I think I will? Nope, but I'm not going to stop shooting for that dream just because I'll likely never make it. Might as well someone who loves basketball to stop playing it because they'll never make the big time.
Kibler is currently a regular on the Pro Tour, and is the head editor at Brainburst.com. Writes a lot of good articles. Great deckbuilder. One of the few Pro Tour players I would love to meet, because he seems fairly down to earth and a decent guy. Him and Kai Budde are the two Pro Tour regulars I'd like to meet and annoy the crap out of asking their opinions on everything Magic.
"Whoever has the most money can buy the best deck that wins instantly. I see it happen all the time at the store."
Depends on the environment you play in. Hell, even the basic game rules have changed to a great degree since you were playing. Whole new ball of wax. If you think skill doesn't determine who wins, you pick any deck you want, I'll play you with one of my cheapie decks and we'll see how fast you win.
If people are more concerned with spam than losing some legitimate e-mails, and the prevailing attitude here that people are generally more concerned with spam than the murder rate in their particular locale, then a whitelist is the ONLY surefire way to not get any of it.
Which is an attack on an ISP's business. They certainly suggest that you use their list to block those ISPs and then hurt that ISP's business. That's taking punishment into their own hands. Justified or not, it's vigilantism.
UbiSoft are the same bunch of worthless publishers that released Pool of Radiance 2 with the infamous "erase your hard drive if you uninstall it" bug, along with a host of other less publicized crapfests. I've only bought one UbiSoft game (Warlords Battlecry II) since their pathetic "quality assurance" department thoughtfully erased my C: drive for me, and I see no reason to ever give any more money to that company, no matter how good anyone claims the games they make now are.
Gameday is 'teh standard' as far as this particular bit is concerned. Sony's done this for 8 years and it's predicted the winner every damn time. As a Pats fan, I was nervous about the underdog Panthers before, and I'm even more nervous now that Troy lost the Gameday battle.
Embarassed to admit it, but 8 years of correlation is hard to put aside. I'd love it if the Pats proved me wrong (one of the few times I would enjoy being wrong) but I dunno... Hope they do.
Cry.
what else can you do to tell the ISP to FOAD if you don't want to become a vigilante?
I fail to see how SPEWS isn't a group (gang, pack, mob, congregation, insert your charged word for group here) of vigilantes?
Bunch of people already saying the same thing, but I might as well raise the decibel level a notch.
I don't even watch TV shows I want to see anymore. I love Iron Chef, Adult Swim, a lot of what's on public television, and as much as I'd like to see them, I frankly can't be bothered with it. Too many ads. Even on PBS, the first and last 5 minutes of any particular show are merely thinly veiled advertising, it seems. Not to mention the month long pledge drives and TV auctions.
I used to be glued to the TV, and now it's a worthless adfest. I go over to friends' houses and they turn the TV off because the constant ad barrage puts me visibly in a bad mood. Nothing I asked them to do, they just do it themselves, most of them inveterate TV watchers. Every so often I'll have PBS on when I'm sick of whatever video game I'm playing, or can't think of a DVD I'd like to watch, but my network television watching is strictly limited to important sports events (Go Pats!) but even then, I mute the commercials, and sometimes miss large sections of the game because I didn't realize the TV was still on.
My father is paying for the cable TV subscription coming into my apartment against my fervent protestation that I'd never use it, and I haven't. The odd Iron Chef episode when I remember to turn it on. Adult Swim when I remember it exists, which isn't often. PBS, because in the Greater boston area, PBS just doesn't come in over rabbit ears unless it's the one from New Hampshire, but it can't be worth the approx $45/month my father is paying for it. However he stubbornly believes that he's doing me a favor. *shrugs* Whatever.
So beware this discovery of games by Madison Avenue: prepare to find the games you've paid for to interrupt your play for commercials, or to sacrifice playability to product placements.
;)
So I'll just wait for someone to pirate the game and tell me whether it's an ad game or not.
If you do, say what you believe. It may be hard on you, but it will probably be better on the company, and who knows, you might actually get recognized for taking a principled stand. It's been known to happen.
If you don't care about the company you work for, and it's just a job, I wouldn't give it a second thought. Enjoy the free food. Applaud when necessary and keep your head down and don't speak unless spoken to.
I care about the company I work for now, but that company happens to employ a grand total of two people, including my father. I foolishly cared about the major IT company I worked for previously and it came to nothing. No way a pissant tech like me was going to make anyone else start caring. Should've just ridden the party boat as long as I could.
"I work in TV where commercials pay the freight. Is this so wrong on the net?"
No. If you don't like it that much, make a note of the websites that use this "technology", and don't visit them in the future. If you have to, use an hosts file to have any links to those sites you unknowingly click on routed to your machine, or some other web site. You don't even have to be a super computer genius to do it.
I certainly plan to never again visit a site that I find is using this stuff. They obviously don't care for me being there, and I don't care to be there, so it works out in the end.
At the weekly Shadowrun game I run we consistently pine for a Shadowrun MMORPG. Anarchy Online just isn't good enough.
...if I participated in moderation anymore.