So have the phone de-auth after a certain amount of time without you entering your credentials. You'd still only have to remember credentials to one device, and then *it* does all of the 'heavy lifting' of authenticating everywhere else.
Console game makers are now including first-sale codes that make them *far* less friendly for re-sale and rental. The last Resident Evil game on the DS even had no ability to delete a saved game, effectively making the game one play per sale. I forget which publisher it is (but I think it's EA) is even making their games almost unplayable unless you are either the first-sale customer (and have the in-box code) or you pay darn close to the initial sale price of the game to buy a new code directly from them.
Soon you may *not* be able to re-sell or buy used copies of console games.
Though I agree that there are too many cases where Devs are targeting a console release and only barely port it to the PC.
My first owned PC was also a Sinclair 1000...though I only owned it for about 3 weeks. It was then traded to my Grandfather for his Vic 20, because Commodore was running a deal that gave out a discount on any traded in computer on the then-new Commodore 64. So, he traded my 1000 for the discount and gave me the Vic 20.:)
Win-win all around.
I had already been using TRS-80 and Apple II computers in classes at school (I was in 4th grade when we started, and got the Sinclair for my birthday during either 5th or 6th grade).
Upgraded from the Vic-20 to an IBM PCjr....okay, it was kind-of an upgrade.
But by putting glass in front of the LCD panel, you eliminate one of the best parts about LCD - no glare. With a glass panel, you'll re-introduce glare into your vision difficulties.
I concur that the color crispness on LCD panels isn't up to what a CRT is capable of yet.
Specific content in AC that I'd like to see available in other Civ games:
Ability to modify the landmass - ie raise/lower terrain ability of Formers, with the potential to attach an island to a larget continent (to take better advantage of those Wonders that only work on the current continent, especially when there's only one square missing to connect the two masses).
I keep hearing about how mod-able Civ 4 is. Is it possible to recreate Alpha Centauri using the Civ 4 code?
There is the *slim* chance that this could help out some games - especially if people with "buff-bot" spare accounts set them up so they're looking at the ad space the entire time they're logged in - letting the game company charge for displaying the ad hundreds of times. Hell, if deals with the game companies get worked out, having your buff-bot watch ads may get you a discount on that account's montly rate.
Um.....not to nit-pick too much, but you might want to properly abbreviate here. Mw is Megawatts, not milliwatts. Remember your metric abbreviations, lowercase m for milli-, upper case M for Mega-.
I suspect a 3-5 Megawatt laser would be MUCH more damaging than a 3-5 milliwatt laser.
Yes, but on most (all?) occasions, time sentenced on multiple counts is served concurrently. That is, if you've been sentenced to 10 years on each of 5 counts of charge X, you'll only spend 10 years (less time for good behaviour/we just want to let you go early) total, not 50 years total.
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We called these "Character Condoms" and passed them out at events at a few conventions :)
SSI. They were published by SSI on material licensed from TSR (who published the D&D books themselves).
(yes, mildly pedantic)
The tipping point is the many, many, many devices that probably aren't running other anti-virus (smartphones and tablets).
So have the phone de-auth after a certain amount of time without you entering your credentials. You'd still only have to remember credentials to one device, and then *it* does all of the 'heavy lifting' of authenticating everywhere else.
Console game makers are now including first-sale codes that make them *far* less friendly for re-sale and rental. The last Resident Evil game on the DS even had no ability to delete a saved game, effectively making the game one play per sale. I forget which publisher it is (but I think it's EA) is even making their games almost unplayable unless you are either the first-sale customer (and have the in-box code) or you pay darn close to the initial sale price of the game to buy a new code directly from them.
Soon you may *not* be able to re-sell or buy used copies of console games.
Though I agree that there are too many cases where Devs are targeting a console release and only barely port it to the PC.
My first owned PC was also a Sinclair 1000...though I only owned it for about 3 weeks. It was then traded to my Grandfather for his Vic 20, because Commodore was running a deal that gave out a discount on any traded in computer on the then-new Commodore 64. So, he traded my 1000 for the discount and gave me the Vic 20. :)
Win-win all around.
I had already been using TRS-80 and Apple II computers in classes at school (I was in 4th grade when we started, and got the Sinclair for my birthday during either 5th or 6th grade).
Upgraded from the Vic-20 to an IBM PCjr....okay, it was kind-of an upgrade.
But by putting glass in front of the LCD panel, you eliminate one of the best parts about LCD - no glare. With a glass panel, you'll re-introduce glare into your vision difficulties.
I concur that the color crispness on LCD panels isn't up to what a CRT is capable of yet.
Specific content in AC that I'd like to see available in other Civ games:
Ability to modify the landmass - ie raise/lower terrain ability of Formers, with the potential to attach an island to a larget continent (to take better advantage of those Wonders that only work on the current continent, especially when there's only one square missing to connect the two masses).
I keep hearing about how mod-able Civ 4 is. Is it possible to recreate Alpha Centauri using the Civ 4 code?
There is the *slim* chance that this could help out some games - especially if people with "buff-bot" spare accounts set them up so they're looking at the ad space the entire time they're logged in - letting the game company charge for displaying the ad hundreds of times. Hell, if deals with the game companies get worked out, having your buff-bot watch ads may get you a discount on that account's montly rate.
Just a quick thought...
Um.....not to nit-pick too much, but you might want to properly abbreviate here. Mw is Megawatts, not milliwatts. Remember your metric abbreviations, lowercase m for milli-, upper case M for Mega-.
I suspect a 3-5 Megawatt laser would be MUCH more damaging than a 3-5 milliwatt laser.
Agreed. A number of the newer spyware programs and gambling dialers replace or append it. Easy fix - make the HOSTS file read-only.
Enjoy,
Yes, but on most (all?) occasions, time sentenced on multiple counts is served concurrently. That is, if you've been sentenced to 10 years on each of 5 counts of charge X, you'll only spend 10 years (less time for good behaviour/we just want to let you go early) total, not 50 years total.