But at what point does this switch from DRM to software as a service? Once you start streaming data from a server, it is more akin to the MMO model (even if it is just single-player) than owning the game title. Of course, if (unlike most MMOs) the game remains static, then it merely takes a single inside leak of the server side data to allow the setting up of private servers for cracked clients. At a certain point, side-chanel attacks become more feasible, and they typically require changing human behavior to prevent, which is much more costly.
indeed, people even hack mmo's to create private servers, one of the reasons people don't use them is they don't get updated enough.
Except you are still giving complete control over your games to a third party. I used to love steam. Then one day they decided that they wanted to change the censored version of a game I bought into the uncensored version. I was annoyed, but more importantly the women folk didn't like it when they saw it. Contacted support to ask for it to be rolled back or for a refund. Was treated like an absolute idiot and was pretty much told to piss off. This after years of being a loyal customer have having spent hundreds of dollars on games. Just completely out of the blue and without permission changed the fundamental character of the game. Had they even tried to apologize I might have been okay with it. Instead I got couple idiots lying to me how they are contacting the developers to try to fix it and other BS. Not just poor support, but down right insulting. When I tried to get another associate thinking I got a bad apple the first time, it was the same thing. They hold every game I ever bought on there for ransom and there is nothing I can do about it. No matter how good it may seem now, it will come back to screw you. It is still DRM, it just has a happy face painted on it.
you can disable auto update in steam, Also you can back up your game files.
Yah Know.... I never really liked when computers switched to this method with the ATX revolution, Sometimes you still have to reach around and pull the plug. Sometimes it can take a minute or two.
I'd hate for this to happen in a life or death scenario. As mentioned above a hard off ala old AT cases just seams safer.
One of the reasons that people are interested in this is higher rez. I mean you can just buy a big 42" HDTV or something if you want a large display. Fine, but that's just 1920x1080. Same sort of deal with a projector. Getting one that does HD resolutions isn't hard. However you really don't want to know what a high rez one costs.
This is why a 30" monitor looks so much better then a 42" TV.
Actually I build Viz rooms, The one a competetor install with overlapping projectors ended up looking like crap because they couldn't get the overlap area right. we do it the cheap way and just have them flush against each other and it looks great. Only problem is when the cleaning lady decided to try to dust them and messed up the alignment.
And for hardware backwards compatibility, nothing beats Linux. I have several scanners that haven't worked on Windows since version 95 since they were abandoned by their manufacturer (thanks HP). With Linux, I use them everyday.
But with Linux you have to buy hardware that 6 months old because they haven't release linux drivers for the new model yet.
just imagine in the left panel it's the goverment imagining needing all these 4 amendment violations and the right one is a sysadmin pulling out network cable from the router that connects the supposed country we would be at cyberwar with.
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The GPU will go the way of the coprocessor
The GPU is a coprocessor
This is way too small of a keyboard to faceroll
arg.... drunk and sleep deprived.... I meant Their... I swear!
well sony just blew there 3 nines rating. :(
The Trick to security questions is to use a secondary password that doesn't match the question. Who would ever guess my mothers maiden name is desk?
How do i mod the whole article -1 flamebait?
But at what point does this switch from DRM to software as a service? Once you start streaming data from a server, it is more akin to the MMO model (even if it is just single-player) than owning the game title. Of course, if (unlike most MMOs) the game remains static, then it merely takes a single inside leak of the server side data to allow the setting up of private servers for cracked clients. At a certain point, side-chanel attacks become more feasible, and they typically require changing human behavior to prevent, which is much more costly.
indeed, people even hack mmo's to create private servers, one of the reasons people don't use them is they don't get updated enough.
Except you are still giving complete control over your games to a third party. I used to love steam. Then one day they decided that they wanted to change the censored version of a game I bought into the uncensored version. I was annoyed, but more importantly the women folk didn't like it when they saw it. Contacted support to ask for it to be rolled back or for a refund. Was treated like an absolute idiot and was pretty much told to piss off. This after years of being a loyal customer have having spent hundreds of dollars on games. Just completely out of the blue and without permission changed the fundamental character of the game. Had they even tried to apologize I might have been okay with it. Instead I got couple idiots lying to me how they are contacting the developers to try to fix it and other BS. Not just poor support, but down right insulting. When I tried to get another associate thinking I got a bad apple the first time, it was the same thing. They hold every game I ever bought on there for ransom and there is nothing I can do about it.
No matter how good it may seem now, it will come back to screw you. It is still DRM, it just has a happy face painted on it.
you can disable auto update in steam, Also you can back up your game files.
the fault is yours.
could ever experience anything truly random?.
Clearly you never done acid
close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.
Also Shotguns....
Just push the power button for 5 seconds.
Yah Know.... I never really liked when computers switched to this method with the ATX revolution, Sometimes you still have to reach around and pull the plug. Sometimes it can take a minute or two.
I'd hate for this to happen in a life or death scenario. As mentioned above a hard off ala old AT cases just seams safer.
Why did it take a constitutional amendment to ban one substance, but not to ban the new substance?
God just what i need, A dedicated Monitor for healbot.
One of the reasons that people are interested in this is higher rez. I mean you can just buy a big 42" HDTV or something if you want a large display. Fine, but that's just 1920x1080. Same sort of deal with a projector. Getting one that does HD resolutions isn't hard. However you really don't want to know what a high rez one costs.
This is why a 30" monitor looks so much better then a 42" TV.
Actually I build Viz rooms, The one a competetor install with overlapping projectors ended up looking like crap because they couldn't get the overlap area right. we do it the cheap way and just have them flush against each other and it looks great. Only problem is when the cleaning lady decided to try to dust them and messed up the alignment.
Yeah, I dunno. My present solution is a 60" tv with a Ps-3 hooked to it. All this seems...excessive.
(hypocrisy, thy name is em emalb)
My Ps3 is hooked up to a 10' projector :P
Why not just use one big-ass flatscreen TV?
Less pixels is better, um right?
I'm just saying I like to pick my hardware based on the specs not the drivers
um.... I personally like having a keyboard
And for hardware backwards compatibility, nothing beats Linux. I have
several scanners that haven't worked on Windows since version 95 since they
were abandoned by their manufacturer (thanks HP). With
Linux, I use them everyday.
But with Linux you have to buy hardware that 6 months old because they haven't release linux drivers for the new model yet.
On the windows 7 rig, I'm confident that I can get oldies to run one way or another, the market for older mac games instead is more limited.
still, I welcome greatly the use of webkit in the client instead of trident.
Dosbox works on macs too
Also Getting rid of IE was genius, why didn't they do that a year ago.
Noman Worked for T.H.U.N.D.E.R
http://www.thunderagents.com/
I'd like to meet this One Man fellow, He seems involved in everything
Who would we be at war with? And what would it look like? I already block Large blocks of IPs from china/russia.
Actually this is a better example http://xkcd.com/538/
just imagine in the left panel it's the goverment imagining needing all these 4 amendment violations and the right one is a sysadmin pulling out network cable from the router that connects the supposed country we would be at cyberwar with.
What you call your 'American perspective', I call brainwashing