Yeah it would be all great untill those gamers mothers walked in to their room late one night and smelt sex all over the place. You can't alt+tab a smell.
No, its about brand recognition. Tell someone about Firefox at the moment and you will get a Richard-Dean-Anderson-esque blank stare. After this perhaps you will get a "Oh yeah, I've heard that name before I think"
Think about it for a split second, what makes you think that copying 15 games is "deserving of jail time" get serious. They didn't actually hurt anyone, they aren't a real danger to society, what makes you think that they should go to prision. You don't think a harsh fine would be enough?
Let me tell you something, XBMC is perhaps the best program an XBox can run, seriously, I hardly play games at all, and I even own them.
XMBC is without doubt one of the most userfriendly useful programs I have ever seen, my father can use it, and that is saying a lot. I bought an Xbox for the express purpose of letting him watch movies and play music whenever he wanted.
Couple that with inbuilt Xlink Kai functionality and there is no need to pay for Live anymore. If you haven't already I suggest you try it.
This is only too true. If I were to install a newbie distro like Mandrake 10, when it goes to update from an initial install I need to download over 200meg of patches for security issues. I'm sorry mandrake but go screw yourself if I'm expected to download that much on a modem connection. Ubuntu also gives you the option of downloading the pakages when you are installing it, with no indication of just how big the download will be. In Australia dirt cheap adsl pakages get you a 200meg download limit, with a 10c per meg charge after that.
Until there is a friendly way to download small updates for linux (and please tell me if there is) it will always be a problem for slow internet connection users.
Now granted Microsoft has the same problem but I signed up for the free service pack cd's on their website and had SP2 on CD within a week of the pack becoming available as a download.
What really annoys me is that the changes for a package with a minor security update can be less then 1kb of code, however you must download the entire thing again.
Thats just stupid, literacy rates are perpetually falling according to one study or another. The fact is that aside from a few outliers the Australian education system works. I wasn't even taught to spell officially in school they just left us to our own devices to learn to spell, and my entire class did fine.
I am from Australia and I am constantly surprised at how up in arms americans get by seeing an old battle axe of a womans breast on live TV. Thats not to say Australia is infallable, if a kangaroo gets hit during a car race you can be sure the commentators will be apoligising to the viewers for the violence, however on breakfast radio the state funded radio station Tripple J has been known to call John Howard, our Prime Minister, a "Fucking Cunt".
Words simply don't have the same sway here, bugger has become a mainstream saying, so much so that it really doesn't have the original meaning I'm told it still has in North America... I've heard from friends that they have got in a little trouble for uttering that word up there.
There are certain taboos that can get you "Censored", as an example the comedy show "The Micallef Pogram" (sic) had a skit about Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop being a crossdresser pulled by the ABC. Ironicaly the skit itself would only show the introduction and about 10 seconds of the scene before it was "Cut" as the switchboard lights lit up.
However aside from the contriversy derived from insulting national heros there isn't that much that wouldn't get through. The only other example I can think of is that the porn channel on our sattelite tv can't show "it" going "in".
Ofcourse everyone knows that multiple apendages could be much more useful in the budding niche of multi-wang pronography. Think of the possibilities TVTA!
Its not a circle, its a exponential progression towards absolute zero quality. Take, for example, the result of a Game based on a Movie based on a Game.
I am just reciently out of a Queensland stateschool and I was shocked to find my beloved http://www.phonelosers.org was blocked. Thankfully slashdot was not.
What are you talking about? Piracy is only a victimless crime when you never intended to buy the product, or you go on to buy it after trying it. If you can honestly say you would never have paid for the game then how can you say that the company lost something from you playing it. If anything they gain market share, there is a reason early versions of windows were easy to copy.
So what? I clean up my families and friends computers whenever they need it. The only condition? I do it on my time, it could take weeks, it could take days I don't really care I'll just get around to it when I feel like it.
If they want an imediate fix they can pay someone for it.
My bet is that 95% of consumers will not go with the expensive Apple option while there are much cheaper options that will do almost everything the apple option will do.
Also you can get an Xbox and put XBMC on it right now.
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Yeah it would be all great untill those gamers mothers walked in to their room late one night and smelt sex all over the place. You can't alt+tab a smell.
No, its about brand recognition. Tell someone about Firefox at the moment and you will get a Richard-Dean-Anderson-esque blank stare. After this perhaps you will get a "Oh yeah, I've heard that name before I think"
Think about it for a split second, what makes you think that copying 15 games is "deserving of jail time" get serious. They didn't actually hurt anyone, they aren't a real danger to society, what makes you think that they should go to prision. You don't think a harsh fine would be enough?
Let me tell you something, XBMC is perhaps the best program an XBox can run, seriously, I hardly play games at all, and I even own them.
XMBC is without doubt one of the most userfriendly useful programs I have ever seen, my father can use it, and that is saying a lot. I bought an Xbox for the express purpose of letting him watch movies and play music whenever he wanted.
Couple that with inbuilt Xlink Kai functionality and there is no need to pay for Live anymore. If you haven't already I suggest you try it.
Are you kidding? In Australia the headlines might as well have read "New Survey proves what everyone already knew: Australia better then New Zealand"
This is only too true. If I were to install a newbie distro like Mandrake 10, when it goes to update from an initial install I need to download over 200meg of patches for security issues. I'm sorry mandrake but go screw yourself if I'm expected to download that much on a modem connection. Ubuntu also gives you the option of downloading the pakages when you are installing it, with no indication of just how big the download will be. In Australia dirt cheap adsl pakages get you a 200meg download limit, with a 10c per meg charge after that.
Until there is a friendly way to download small updates for linux (and please tell me if there is) it will always be a problem for slow internet connection users.
Now granted Microsoft has the same problem but I signed up for the free service pack cd's on their website and had SP2 on CD within a week of the pack becoming available as a download.
What really annoys me is that the changes for a package with a minor security update can be less then 1kb of code, however you must download the entire thing again.
This guy is not trolling, he makes a good point.
What about hand eye coordination? Believe it or not that is a useful skill to have.
Buy the kid an Xbox for gods sake, that way you know they aren't playing games on your PC and it can easily be turned off.
Thats just stupid, literacy rates are perpetually falling according to one study or another. The fact is that aside from a few outliers the Australian education system works. I wasn't even taught to spell officially in school they just left us to our own devices to learn to spell, and my entire class did fine.
Ironicaly if you are caught you are sent to a fuck-me-in-the-ass prison.
I am from Australia and I am constantly surprised at how up in arms americans get by seeing an old battle axe of a womans breast on live TV. Thats not to say Australia is infallable, if a kangaroo gets hit during a car race you can be sure the commentators will be apoligising to the viewers for the violence, however on breakfast radio the state funded radio station Tripple J has been known to call John Howard, our Prime Minister, a "Fucking Cunt".
Words simply don't have the same sway here, bugger has become a mainstream saying, so much so that it really doesn't have the original meaning I'm told it still has in North America... I've heard from friends that they have got in a little trouble for uttering that word up there.
There are certain taboos that can get you "Censored", as an example the comedy show "The Micallef Pogram" (sic) had a skit about Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop being a crossdresser pulled by the ABC. Ironicaly the skit itself would only show the introduction and about 10 seconds of the scene before it was "Cut" as the switchboard lights lit up.
However aside from the contriversy derived from insulting national heros there isn't that much that wouldn't get through. The only other example I can think of is that the porn channel on our sattelite tv can't show "it" going "in".
Exactly and now look at the rising crime mad sexual deviance rates in Cana... wait a second....
Ofcourse everyone knows that multiple apendages could be much more useful in the budding niche of multi-wang pronography. Think of the possibilities TVTA!
Its not a circle, its a exponential progression towards absolute zero quality. Take, for example, the result of a Game based on a Movie based on a Game.
Sorry Australian hosted pornography is illegal.
I am just reciently out of a Queensland stateschool and I was shocked to find my beloved http://www.phonelosers.org was blocked. Thankfully slashdot was not.
What are you talking about? Piracy is only a victimless crime when you never intended to buy the product, or you go on to buy it after trying it. If you can honestly say you would never have paid for the game then how can you say that the company lost something from you playing it. If anything they gain market share, there is a reason early versions of windows were easy to copy.
No it will probably win.
*ducks*
So what? I clean up my families and friends computers whenever they need it. The only condition? I do it on my time, it could take weeks, it could take days I don't really care I'll just get around to it when I feel like it.
If they want an imediate fix they can pay someone for it.
My bet is that 95% of consumers will not go with the expensive Apple option while there are much cheaper options that will do almost everything the apple option will do.
Also you can get an Xbox and put XBMC on it right now.
And send them here
Don't tell GW that the lack of fossils will mean no oil.
Actually there is a limit to the number of pixels you can send in an MMS message, the camera would have to round it down to fit the message size.
Couldn't they just use lynx to look it up from the compromised host?
Yes because no blogs get a large readership that would be interested in having a video section.
I know it isn't true but is there any practical reason why they couldn't do this to prevent piracy?