In the keynote he said they've taken all the punkbuster stuff out, so it can't connect to a punkbuster protected server (not entirely sure how punkbuster works but I can guess).
He also said he doesn't know if there will be unforeseen circumstances this way, but they are ready and willing to deal with it if this does cause an influx of cheating.
As mentioned in the post displaying above this one, what is looking so incredibly fantastic about this (a month to go, woop) is the fact that Joss Whedon is possibly the best screen writer around. The guy is just phenomenal. And I have to say, he probably became my favourite comic book writer with Fray too.
If you go back and watch Buffy, and the Joss episodes particularly, you can see just how good he is, but Firefly is something special. I guess I'm also biased in that the setting just felt so right for me.
I'm amazed how many people seem incapable of reformatting and reinstalling Windows. People are bringing computers to me at work all the time asking for virii or, more often, spyware to be sorted out. Takes me about an hour while doing other things and I tend to get paid for it.
My bro managed to score tickets for it, so am going to see it on the Wednesday. Apparently they were all sold out within an hour and a half, and so they've organised two more screenings, and are trying to move the Q&A to a bigger room. Good sign for the success of the movie!
I read something rather interesting about why other aliens would likely be humanoids. That is, intelligent life.
The way evolution works, intelligent life would most likely be top of the food chain. To have fast visionary response and good stereo hearing, eyes and ears would be close to the brain. Mouth and anus make most sense in pretty much everything animal you've seen at opposite ends of a torso. More than two legs is a bit redundant by a certain point of evolution too. Any more than four and an animal can't travel as fast on land. Hands would be fairly important... That and unless thay have formed telepathic modes of communication, they would most likely have some form of speech.
I was always convinced intelligent life could be well, anything. But having read this it all makes some kind of sense.
It doesn't make you kill prostitutes. Just something you are free to do, as in real life. I choose not to in SA, for various reasons.
Also I think with SA they have been more consistent with who is racist/sexist &c. You're character isn't overly either, yet the more dislikable people are, as in films for instance.
I bought it, and it had an 18 label on it. Moral of the story - DON'T LET YOUR KIDS PLAY IT IF THEY'RE NOT INTELLIGENT, FREE THINKING INDIVIDUALS. Jesus!
Nicole Dufresne would probably still be alive if she had been armed and knew how to defend herself.
And someone else wouldn't be. Maybe more than one... I don't think someone who kills someone, or tries, should get away with it, but I don't think killing them is the answer.
I don't even think the most evil people should be killed. Would be kind of nice to show you're better than them, but alas.
But, maybe it's just the liberalism of living in a country that doesn't put people to death regularly that makes me think compassionately.
Not quite true.
Dutch refers to The Netherlands and their language. Deutsche refers to Germany and it's language. They are different words, and any crossing over is a mistake.
Not very scientific, but I tried "height mt. robson" in Google and the first result had the height of the mountain in the blurb. Tried it on Accoona and I got a page of Hotels. None of which were even in Canada even.
Also it took about 10 times as long to even bring up the WRONG results.
Nope. Still not going to stop using Google.
Stupidest. Name. Ever.
I'd have said worst, but really, it's just so silly! But then I guess this is from the nation that brought us one of the finest performance cars ever, titled the Fairlady.
Well. I am playing a 10 day trial I got off my friend, who is wholey addicted to it, and it is very nice. I am not sure whether I can afford both time and money wise to get into it though. But as far as MMO's go, it is probably by far the finest yet. Lineage 2 is not a good MMO to judge others by, and I'm fairly tempted to say the same of Galaxies, though maybe it's just a matter of taste. My friend and I spent a good few months playing AC2, but stopped when we pretty much hit a level cap and had other things to do anyway. However, we both have several characters on WoW, as it is actually fun to try out all the variations. They are all, well, variant.
Basically, out of all the MMO's I've played (AC2, FFXI, Lineage 2, DaoC, Eve Online, Neocron and Anarchy) WoW is the one I would choose to play. It has all the best features of the others, done better.
If you have a friend who bought the CE, see if you can get the 10 day free trial from them and check it out.
I wish they would have supported it instead of those brainless reality shows, etc.
Damn straight. Firefly was probably my favourite show of the last ten years at least. And now five months longer to wait.
Still, I am very glad that they aren't wanting to alter it at all. Unless that note comes later...
And apparently fuck the people who make the game then, yea? So what are you going to be playing instead?
I just don't think Valve need punishing, when apart from the hitches in the on-the-whole new form of distribution they're trying, they have made the finest game of the year.
'Yes, they released 2004's GOTY, they tried their best to bypass publishers, and they made millions, but they won't be making another game, 'cause everyone who bought and enjoyed their game sued them as they couldn't play it for a couple of days.' - Makes no sense to me!
I was inconvenienced. I tried to play it last night and Steam was down. Didn't get to, had to just hope it worked today. But I didn't really care.
The audio bug, I am having problems with and thus haven't played it much today. But I'm not jumping up and down saying I'm goign to sue them, I'm just going through trying the fixes people are recommending that might work. Just finished a defrag, and will try it again now. Countless games I have tried to play throughout the years have taken some effort to get working right, but I have never thrown vitriol at others, or the company who made it because of the issues.
I'd love to see people stop whining about this.
I bought it, it arrived today and after install was unlocked and ready to go within 20 minutes (on dialip). I saw someone say on a forum the other day 'in the time it takes, go for a walk or something'. I mean honestly, is it really such a big deal? Do you really need to sue Valve? Even the audio bug people are getting - it happens. No game can be perfect out of the gate. Give it a couple of days, and see if they sort it or a fix is found, but it's fucking pointless getting so angry about it and threatening to sue.
Because they are the only store selling it before the date they're supposed to. That means that up until Tuesday, Best Buy are VU's only source of money. OK, pre-orders and people buying after Tuesday fine, but if Valve unlocked it early because of Best Buy, then BB would be VU's only source of income from the game until all the other stores broke the release date too.
At the moment, the only places to get it from are Steam and BB - and BB is the only one of the two giving VU any money.
If Valve unlocked it, people would flock to buy it on Steam, or at least I suspect that is VU's thinking. Only BB are selling it early, and VU want to make as much money as they can, and we know from the litigation that they're not happy with Steam in the first place.
Maybe if every retailer was selling it early, they'd let Valve unlock it, but at the moment with only one retailer pulling in money for VU, it just doesn't appeal.
Was not the original intent of the patent system to provide incentive for inventors to develop and produce their invention? Wasn't the idea to provide a temporary period of protection to the inventor to establish himself in the market for his invention without getting ripped off by an unscrupulous competitor?
Exactly, but similarly, copyright was originally there to do the same for IP. Greed has turned that into a way of hoarding money too.
The one hope I have, and I was discussing this earlier, is that Kerry will pull American troops out of Iraq, so that the UN (with support from France and Germany as well) can sort it out. At the moment Iraq is looking an awful lot like Vietnam in the early 70's, only this time there are organisations who can (mostly) peacefully intervene.
Whether this happens or not, I have no idea, as I don't know much about Kerry's plans should he get into office.
Very, very possibly, but what caused that bubble? He had his problems, but overall...
Nothing, but incompetency, can account for everything surrounding the current government.
I'm abstaining, because my vote can do nothing but ensure that one of the two preselected figureheads will win.
I just can't respect that. Not when Bush has to go so bad, and it's already looking too close for comfort. I know it might hurt your conscience to vote for Kerry, but honestly...
Clinton created a record number of jobs in the US in his two terms. The GNP rose. The deficit was at, what compareed to now, were acceptable levels (if not records too). I know he wasn't such a great guy, but he was better than Bush. Why don't you just go and help ensure we aren't stuck with this uneducated Satan for another four years?
The best way to build up your party is to vote for them in local elections where they are more likely to be noticed, and maybe even win the election.
Exactly. I just read someone on a forum I post on saying this exact thing. Vote Kerry, then vote third party locally, where they can make a difference to your life.
I am circumspect about Kerry, but I know for sure that we need rid of Bush more than anything else, and I am not even American. I live in the UK, but it is so clear now that the outcome of this election is going to play such a large role in politics in the UK (thanks Blair, you fucking asshat) and the rest of the world!
Did I just block the ads on slashdot, or are there NONE ON THIS STORY?
Like someone said recently (and I won't attribute the quote because then people will make similarly flippant comments) 'the current political climate does not allow apathy'.
Stop whining about pointless shit and get involved enough to do something about the hideous mess that is the current US government. I am appalled at the possiblity that Bush could get a second term, after the fuck up that is the war (did it not 'end'?), and the farce that is the economy.
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In the keynote he said they've taken all the punkbuster stuff out, so it can't connect to a punkbuster protected server (not entirely sure how punkbuster works but I can guess). He also said he doesn't know if there will be unforeseen circumstances this way, but they are ready and willing to deal with it if this does cause an influx of cheating.
As mentioned in the post displaying above this one, what is looking so incredibly fantastic about this (a month to go, woop) is the fact that Joss Whedon is possibly the best screen writer around. The guy is just phenomenal. And I have to say, he probably became my favourite comic book writer with Fray too.
If you go back and watch Buffy, and the Joss episodes particularly, you can see just how good he is, but Firefly is something special. I guess I'm also biased in that the setting just felt so right for me.
I'm amazed how many people seem incapable of reformatting and reinstalling Windows. People are bringing computers to me at work all the time asking for virii or, more often, spyware to be sorted out. Takes me about an hour while doing other things and I tend to get paid for it.
My bro managed to score tickets for it, so am going to see it on the Wednesday. Apparently they were all sold out within an hour and a half, and so they've organised two more screenings, and are trying to move the Q&A to a bigger room. Good sign for the success of the movie!
I read something rather interesting about why other aliens would likely be humanoids. That is, intelligent life.
The way evolution works, intelligent life would most likely be top of the food chain. To have fast visionary response and good stereo hearing, eyes and ears would be close to the brain. Mouth and anus make most sense in pretty much everything animal you've seen at opposite ends of a torso.
More than two legs is a bit redundant by a certain point of evolution too. Any more than four and an animal can't travel as fast on land. Hands would be fairly important...
That and unless thay have formed telepathic modes of communication, they would most likely have some form of speech.
I was always convinced intelligent life could be well, anything. But having read this it all makes some kind of sense.
It doesn't make you kill prostitutes. Just something you are free to do, as in real life. I choose not to in SA, for various reasons.
Also I think with SA they have been more consistent with who is racist/sexist &c. You're character isn't overly either, yet the more dislikable people are, as in films for instance.
I bought it, and it had an 18 label on it. Moral of the story - DON'T LET YOUR KIDS PLAY IT IF THEY'RE NOT INTELLIGENT, FREE THINKING INDIVIDUALS. Jesus!
Nicole Dufresne would probably still be alive if she had been armed and knew how to defend herself.
And someone else wouldn't be. Maybe more than one... I don't think someone who kills someone, or tries, should get away with it, but I don't think killing them is the answer.
I don't even think the most evil people should be killed. Would be kind of nice to show you're better than them, but alas.
But, maybe it's just the liberalism of living in a country that doesn't put people to death regularly that makes me think compassionately.
Last time I post first thing after getting up!
Not quite true.
Dutch refers to The Netherlands and their language. Deutsche refers to Germany and it's language. They are different words, and any crossing over is a mistake.
Not very scientific, but I tried "height mt. robson" in Google and the first result had the height of the mountain in the blurb. Tried it on Accoona and I got a page of Hotels. None of which were even in Canada even. Also it took about 10 times as long to even bring up the WRONG results. Nope. Still not going to stop using Google.
Stupidest. Name. Ever.
I'd have said worst, but really, it's just so silly! But then I guess this is from the nation that brought us one of the finest performance cars ever, titled the Fairlady.
It says it works for silenced shots too.
Well. I am playing a 10 day trial I got off my friend, who is wholey addicted to it, and it is very nice. I am not sure whether I can afford both time and money wise to get into it though. But as far as MMO's go, it is probably by far the finest yet.
Lineage 2 is not a good MMO to judge others by, and I'm fairly tempted to say the same of Galaxies, though maybe it's just a matter of taste. My friend and I spent a good few months playing AC2, but stopped when we pretty much hit a level cap and had other things to do anyway. However, we both have several characters on WoW, as it is actually fun to try out all the variations. They are all, well, variant.
Basically, out of all the MMO's I've played (AC2, FFXI, Lineage 2, DaoC, Eve Online, Neocron and Anarchy) WoW is the one I would choose to play. It has all the best features of the others, done better.
If you have a friend who bought the CE, see if you can get the 10 day free trial from them and check it out.
I wish they would have supported it instead of those brainless reality shows, etc.
Damn straight. Firefly was probably my favourite show of the last ten years at least. And now five months longer to wait.
Still, I am very glad that they aren't wanting to alter it at all. Unless that note comes later...
And apparently fuck the people who make the game then, yea? So what are you going to be playing instead?
I just don't think Valve need punishing, when apart from the hitches in the on-the-whole new form of distribution they're trying, they have made the finest game of the year.
'Yes, they released 2004's GOTY, they tried their best to bypass publishers, and they made millions, but they won't be making another game, 'cause everyone who bought and enjoyed their game sued them as they couldn't play it for a couple of days.' - Makes no sense to me!
I was inconvenienced. I tried to play it last night and Steam was down. Didn't get to, had to just hope it worked today. But I didn't really care. The audio bug, I am having problems with and thus haven't played it much today. But I'm not jumping up and down saying I'm goign to sue them, I'm just going through trying the fixes people are recommending that might work. Just finished a defrag, and will try it again now.
Countless games I have tried to play throughout the years have taken some effort to get working right, but I have never thrown vitriol at others, or the company who made it because of the issues.
I'd love to see people stop whining about this. I bought it, it arrived today and after install was unlocked and ready to go within 20 minutes (on dialip). I saw someone say on a forum the other day 'in the time it takes, go for a walk or something'. I mean honestly, is it really such a big deal? Do you really need to sue Valve?
Even the audio bug people are getting - it happens. No game can be perfect out of the gate. Give it a couple of days, and see if they sort it or a fix is found, but it's fucking pointless getting so angry about it and threatening to sue.
Because they are the only store selling it before the date they're supposed to. That means that up until Tuesday, Best Buy are VU's only source of money. OK, pre-orders and people buying after Tuesday fine, but if Valve unlocked it early because of Best Buy, then BB would be VU's only source of income from the game until all the other stores broke the release date too.
At the moment, the only places to get it from are Steam and BB - and BB is the only one of the two giving VU any money.
If Valve unlocked it, people would flock to buy it on Steam, or at least I suspect that is VU's thinking. Only BB are selling it early, and VU want to make as much money as they can, and we know from the litigation that they're not happy with Steam in the first place.
Maybe if every retailer was selling it early, they'd let Valve unlock it, but at the moment with only one retailer pulling in money for VU, it just doesn't appeal.
Was not the original intent of the patent system to provide incentive for inventors to develop and produce their invention? Wasn't the idea to provide a temporary period of protection to the inventor to establish himself in the market for his invention without getting ripped off by an unscrupulous competitor?
Exactly, but similarly, copyright was originally there to do the same for IP. Greed has turned that into a way of hoarding money too.
The one hope I have, and I was discussing this earlier, is that Kerry will pull American troops out of Iraq, so that the UN (with support from France and Germany as well) can sort it out. At the moment Iraq is looking an awful lot like Vietnam in the early 70's, only this time there are organisations who can (mostly) peacefully intervene.
Whether this happens or not, I have no idea, as I don't know much about Kerry's plans should he get into office.
Very, very possibly, but what caused that bubble? He had his problems, but overall...
Nothing, but incompetency, can account for everything surrounding the current government.
I'm abstaining, because my vote can do nothing but ensure that one of the two preselected figureheads will win.
I just can't respect that. Not when Bush has to go so bad, and it's already looking too close for comfort. I know it might hurt your conscience to vote for Kerry, but honestly...
Clinton created a record number of jobs in the US in his two terms. The GNP rose. The deficit was at, what compareed to now, were acceptable levels (if not records too). I know he wasn't such a great guy, but he was better than Bush. Why don't you just go and help ensure we aren't stuck with this uneducated Satan for another four years?
The best way to build up your party is to vote for them in local elections where they are more likely to be noticed, and maybe even win the election.
Exactly. I just read someone on a forum I post on saying this exact thing. Vote Kerry, then vote third party locally, where they can make a difference to your life.
I am circumspect about Kerry, but I know for sure that we need rid of Bush more than anything else, and I am not even American. I live in the UK, but it is so clear now that the outcome of this election is going to play such a large role in politics in the UK (thanks Blair, you fucking asshat) and the rest of the world!
Did I just block the ads on slashdot, or are there NONE ON THIS STORY?
Like someone said recently (and I won't attribute the quote because then people will make similarly flippant comments) 'the current political climate does not allow apathy'.
Stop whining about pointless shit and get involved enough to do something about the hideous mess that is the current US government. I am appalled at the possiblity that Bush could get a second term, after the fuck up that is the war (did it not 'end'?), and the farce that is the economy.