I run a massive RAID hosted off a NetApp Filer. Drives fail all the time. MTF * the number of drives = high failure rate. If you have bottomless piles of cash to keep buying new drives go for it. However for most people tapes are far better.
I use AIT. Been doing so for years now and have not had a single tape fail. Cost per gigabyte is around.50$ when you buy larger quantites of tapes. MTF is claimed to be at 30 years and I have no reason to doubt that claim.
"You realiz this is being done by businesses? You know, who pay their developers to do what managment says. Somehow I don't think forking this thing which is intended to unify makes good business sense."
If its not open source, the geeks wont use it.
If the geeks dont use it, its not a unified package manager.
If it is open source, the geeks will fork it.
I give it a week before the infighting starts and the project gets forked six times. Getting a bunch of Linux geeks to agree on a unified ANYTHING is just not going to happen in our lifetimes. Get over it, treat each distro as a diferent OS and get on with your lives.
"Let's see a show of hands of people who have actually purchased the game and who have problems playing online?"
Me for one. It took two hours to register and steam NEVER connects on the first try. In addiont steam takes a while to load and the game wont launch until steam is up. Add in the fact that I dont WANT spyware on my system and I have to realise that steam adds nothing that I want or need, so why should I put up with it?
"Someday, circumventing copy protection won't be seen as a white-hat activity. But it will be seen as people trying to cheat others out of compensation for their work."
How is trying to bypass a broekn and buggy overzellous copy protection system AFTER I've payed money for the prodyct cheating anyone out of compensation for their work? Downloading the game witout paying for it would qualify, but getting their spyware off my computer seems like a good thing to me.
So you think its the ISPs place to decide which site you realy wanted to go to? What if they decide that everyone who looks for information about the Patriot Act should get redirected to a partisan puff piece explaining how giving up our freedoms is a good thing? I could list other examples but I think you get the idea, if the ISP is going to claim to be a common carrier they have NO buisness redirecting traffic. As soon as they do that they become responsible for the content.
"I don't suppose you have any actual evidence to back up any of that, do you?"
Other then all the pirated copies of the game out there on the Internet? All you need to do to pirate this game is have some one buy one copy and decrypt it through steam. Then add in one of the "no steam" patches that are out there and zip up the install folder. Make a bittorrent of the resulting zip and your done.
This is why I always print my ransom letters using an old daisy wheel printer.
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"A standalone patch could solve it, easily. (And as some have noted, there are probably some shady patches out there that do just this already)."
Whats on the CDs is encrypted. If you can crack the encryption more power to you (of course that would be illigal). All the pirated versions or the "no steam" patches rely on an existing decrypted copy of the game.
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"Steam works fine in a disconnected mode after you've authenticated, for one thing."
Please explain how you authenticate if there is nothing to authenticate to?
"if Steam stops 1/10 of the various hacked up cheatmod shit I'll be on it."
And if it causes the game to take hours to install (if you can actualy connect), slow to launch and pops up adds on your desktop? Steam is a joke, it has done nothing to stop pirates and will do nothing to stop cheaters.
HP has long since declared that long term market share and profits come second to short term quarterly stock price boosts. Who cares if you piss off some of your largest customers, you've got boat payments dang it!
The thing is, ActiveX is a good tool in the right hands. Big buisness WANT stuff like OWC (office web components) and until such systems are supported many people (such as myself) simply cant use Firefox. As for the HTML/Javascript problems. Yes a lot of pages and software isn't built right and failes to conform to the standards. However, which is better, being more forgiving and allowing (for example) javasctip to not require semicolons at the end of lines (somthing I see a lot from people with a background in VB) or failing to load the page? Keep in mind that the end user realy has no control over how the page is built and if it comes down to using Firefox and not getting to their data or using IE oods are they will stick with Microsoft.
Given that they never figured out that you cant install the game without coutner strike without hte installer crashing or that you can ditch the water skimmer and then get stuck after playing for 20min and finding a point where you need it but cant go back to get it I dont think they realy had ANY QA on this product.
"Bush and Kerry refused to support this, I believe on the grounds there would be absolutely no feasible way to move the US towards the requirements listed. The cost would also be untenable."
Yet we'll spend 5.8 billion a month on a war in Iraq so we can get oil to pollute with. Go figure.
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I run a massive RAID hosted off a NetApp Filer. Drives fail all the time. MTF * the number of drives = high failure rate. If you have bottomless piles of cash to keep buying new drives go for it. However for most people tapes are far better.
I use AIT. Been doing so for years now and have not had a single tape fail. Cost per gigabyte is around .50$ when you buy larger quantites of tapes. MTF is claimed to be at 30 years and I have no reason to doubt that claim.
Given that tapes are cheaper and more reliable then hard drives what are you looking for?
Now on top of everything else I have to deal with I now get to defragment my camcorder.
If its not open source, the geeks wont use it.
If the geeks dont use it, its not a unified package manager.
If it is open source, the geeks will fork it.
I give it a week before the infighting starts and the project gets forked six times. Getting a bunch of Linux geeks to agree on a unified ANYTHING is just not going to happen in our lifetimes. Get over it, treat each distro as a diferent OS and get on with your lives.
Hye, I resemble that remark. How about we call it (-1 no coffee yet)?
Me for one. It took two hours to register and steam NEVER connects on the first try. In addiont steam takes a while to load and the game wont launch until steam is up. Add in the fact that I dont WANT spyware on my system and I have to realise that steam adds nothing that I want or need, so why should I put up with it?
How is trying to bypass a broekn and buggy overzellous copy protection system AFTER I've payed money for the prodyct cheating anyone out of compensation for their work? Downloading the game witout paying for it would qualify, but getting their spyware off my computer seems like a good thing to me.
So you think its the ISPs place to decide which site you realy wanted to go to? What if they decide that everyone who looks for information about the Patriot Act should get redirected to a partisan puff piece explaining how giving up our freedoms is a good thing? I could list other examples but I think you get the idea, if the ISP is going to claim to be a common carrier they have NO buisness redirecting traffic. As soon as they do that they become responsible for the content.
Knopix! Its the new coal!
Other then all the pirated copies of the game out there on the Internet? All you need to do to pirate this game is have some one buy one copy and decrypt it through steam. Then add in one of the "no steam" patches that are out there and zip up the install folder. Make a bittorrent of the resulting zip and your done.
What makes you think we still have such archaic things as privacy laws anymore? Dont you know that if you have a private life the terrorists win?
This is why I always print my ransom letters using an old daisy wheel printer.
Whats on the CDs is encrypted. If you can crack the encryption more power to you (of course that would be illigal). All the pirated versions or the "no steam" patches rely on an existing decrypted copy of the game.
Please explain how you authenticate if there is nothing to authenticate to?
And if it causes the game to take hours to install (if you can actualy connect), slow to launch and pops up adds on your desktop? Steam is a joke, it has done nothing to stop pirates and will do nothing to stop cheaters.
HP has long since declared that long term market share and profits come second to short term quarterly stock price boosts. Who cares if you piss off some of your largest customers, you've got boat payments dang it!
The thing is, ActiveX is a good tool in the right hands. Big buisness WANT stuff like OWC (office web components) and until such systems are supported many people (such as myself) simply cant use Firefox. As for the HTML/Javascript problems. Yes a lot of pages and software isn't built right and failes to conform to the standards. However, which is better, being more forgiving and allowing (for example) javasctip to not require semicolons at the end of lines (somthing I see a lot from people with a background in VB) or failing to load the page? Keep in mind that the end user realy has no control over how the page is built and if it comes down to using Firefox and not getting to their data or using IE oods are they will stick with Microsoft.
Is this "smart" yarn smart enough to stop people from wearing lime green paisley sweaters?
And you think that your IM service cant?
Given that they never figured out that you cant install the game without coutner strike without hte installer crashing or that you can ditch the water skimmer and then get stuck after playing for 20min and finding a point where you need it but cant go back to get it I dont think they realy had ANY QA on this product.
I can quit any time I want. I just dont want to.
Are the object web components covered? I use them at work to genereate web based pivot tables and the API is far from fully documented.
Yet we'll spend 5.8 billion a month on a war in Iraq so we can get oil to pollute with. Go figure.