It might sound like work, but it's a lot less effort than living with all the horrible nasty bugs that come with a Fedora distro.
What nasty bugs are those? I'm a Fedora user and I haven't ex ^H^H
I feel your pain. I wish Fedora would go to a 9 month update schedule, it would make me happier. When I jumped to Linux on x86 from PPC (long story), I narrowed down my distro choices to either CentOS or Fedora. I chose Fedora...maybe I should have gone CentOS but I haven't had too many major problems with Fedora.
Recompiling a kernel can be "guru" work...yes I've done it by following a "recipe" in a book but I haven't done it in years, forgot how.
Everyone around me seemed to be pirating their games, either through modified executables on their PCs or by chipping their consoles. This was all in a fairly affluent area of the US.
Where? I'm in the midwest and nobody but nobody chipped their consoles. You want a game, you paid for it, or if you were young, got mom & dad to pay for it. Or you rented it, or found a used copy.
It's probably a selection bias thing, different locales different attitudes.
the PS2 reference was what we call a "for instance" showing my point that it isn't Anglophones or Japanese that are pirating. The same would have applied to the PS3 Linux forums. The people wanting to turn PS3's into "PirateStations" weren't in the Anglophone nations or Japan.
And as I said, region encoding of games hasn't been an issue since 2006!
With games like Psychonauts, Bastion, Wasteland, Fez, Frozen Synapse, Brütal Legend, Aquaria, FTL, Super Meat Boy, Stacking, Shank, To The Moon, Hotline Miami,
Aren't those games "already" on various consoles? So why favor the Steambox, which isn't even on the shelves yet, when you can already have those games on a PS3/Xbox360.
Perhaps you aren't aware, but PSP, Vita, PS3 and PS4 games are not region encoded.
Oneof the reasons australians pay more is that it's a english speaking country far away from the other english speaking countries. It didn't use NTSC encoding or 120V power so they couldn't just send australia the US stuff, and they don't use American spelling! They also have a totally wacky and outrageous rating system. The exchange rate is also part of the issue. Not taking into account the tiny population. At least with the US, you can add Canada into that which makes over 300 MILLION people. Australia is less than a tenth of that. So basically they have to send Australia a customized UK version for what is, essentially, a niche market.
Besides Excuses about region encoding and whatnot are just that, excuses for impoverished Russians/Ukrainians/Poles/Thais/Indians/Brazilians to acquire media without paying.
The moment some media company releases stuff in those places, it goes up on "ThePirateHarbor.ru/ro/ukr/pl/etc etc. They tend to not respect intellectual property.
Think about it from a publisher perspective:
"Why should we release our stuff at all in a nation of thieves."
Let me guess, you're not a native English speaker. Let me also surmise that you don't live in the UK, US, NZ, AU, or Japan. Because in those regions....people actually pay money for software.
The only people wanting to start conversations about "flip-top" PS2's and HDLoaders on the PS2 Linux forums were not in any of the above countries.
The reason developers/publishers put more emphasis on console games (which are actually computer games since consoles are special purpose computers) is because console gamers spend money. Especially so compared to PC gamers in Eastern Europe and the Second/Third World.
They just don't sell them at Staples, Best Buy, or Wal-Mart.
But that matters. Back in Linksys's pre-Cisco days, anyone could run out to their local wal-mart and pick up a nice blue stackable with their cable-modem Linksys BEFW11S4 or WRT54 for a fair price and it would provide good service for years of constant use.
I'm of the opinion that Cisco bought Linksys when they realized that lots of small/home office people were buying Linksys products because they were good enough and inexpensive and ignoring whatever overpriced gear Cisco supposedly intended for the small/home office market.
I have two WRT54G's, one runs the default firmware and is serving as the router which it has done for years, the other was DD-WRT'd to serve as a bridge. (Linksys's old G bridge, the WET54 was overpriced!)
And I will keep running the things until they fail.
are people really flinging files around their home networks that much? No, the router is there to act as a gateway for all the tablets, phones, game consoles, Blu-Ray players, notebooks, that are probably all connecting wirelessly
It wants to install an "autodownloader.noarch" package on Fedora. I take it the data files are not in the repos? Be nice to know how big they are...ah looks like about 150MB total.
but I think that they really cut to the heart of the game without larding it up with too much cruft.
If you've ever read "The Princess Bride" you'll recognize the following reference. I call Civ: Rev, the "Good Parts" version of Civilization. All the fun without the tedium.
what? You mean if a person levels their thingy on the PS3 and then takes their Flaming Dragon of Cuteness to someone who has the Wii version and puts it on their portal thingy, the Skylander still has it's levels?
That's nice, didn't know that. I figured the stats were stored on the regular game save and that the toy was just there to unlock the creature in the game.
The following statements I make really only apply to Eastern Europe and the Second Third World, not the Anglophone nations, France or Germany.
Well yes it's US only. The shows are made here and the US advertisers want to sell stuff to Americans, not former commies/Brazilians/Thais who still aren't quite used to paying for content yet.
Don't like it? Make your own stuff. Oh, that's right, you're not quite up to snuff with that either, for the most part. Keep working at it.
Well except for the Americans how are too japanophilic for their own good and pirate even the crappiest schlocky Anime japan produces...but they're just a whiny overly-loud minority.
The real problem is that the Emacs userbase/developers/RMS uses computers in the same manner as someone might at MIT in 1975.
They simply don't know, kind of like how the non-jabber pidgin protocols didn't receive attention or updates to match the features of the original programs because the pidgin devs were all using finch on the command line, didn't use X and didn't use the other protocols.
Blame the hunters themselves for that, when hunters began "Behaving badly" in greater numbers...farmers started get persnickety about allowing hunting on their land. Used to be the average farmer didn't care much, even a stranger could knock on a farmhouse and get permission. Now they all got no hunting/trespassing signs everywhere.
but I remember some late night commercials here in Chicago for a Mills Brothers collection that used to have be singing along. It was one of those really long late-night commercials. I can still harmonize with "Glow Worm" from those commercials.
Shine little glow worm glimmer glimmer. Yep, I remember that.
I don't know if it's just me getting old, but in the pre-cable days, television had a charm about it that it completely lacks today.
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back ups in particular.
These are "pressed" discs...you really don't need "backups" of those discs.
It's not unusual for Anime series to have canned credits on the way out which change in no particulars. And guess who actually uses MKV?
The people who pirate anime who are also obsessed with subtitles.
It might sound like work, but it's a lot less effort than living with all the horrible nasty bugs that come with a Fedora distro.
What nasty bugs are those? I'm a Fedora user and I haven't ex ^H^H
I feel your pain. I wish Fedora would go to a 9 month update schedule, it would make me happier. When I jumped to Linux on x86 from PPC (long story), I narrowed down my distro choices to either CentOS or Fedora. I chose Fedora...maybe I should have gone CentOS but I haven't had too many major problems with Fedora.
Recompiling a kernel can be "guru" work...yes I've done it by following a "recipe" in a book but I haven't done it in years, forgot how.
It's really that easy? Didn't know that. (I'm a desktop user who runs Fedora and have zero experience with "enterprise" RedHat/CentOS)
Console gamers pirate as much as PC gamers.
Not in the Anglophone nations in japan they don't.
There are lots of pirated copies of console games on torrent sites.
Yes, but it's not Americans doing the uploading or downloading but a bunch of Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Romanians..etc etc
Everyone around me seemed to be pirating their games, either through modified executables on their PCs or by chipping their consoles. This was all in a fairly affluent area of the US.
Where? I'm in the midwest and nobody but nobody chipped their consoles. You want a game, you paid for it, or if you were young, got mom & dad to pay for it. Or you rented it, or found a used copy.
It's probably a selection bias thing, different locales different attitudes.
Don't be so literal.
the PS2 reference was what we call a "for instance" showing my point that it isn't Anglophones or Japanese that are pirating. The same would have applied to the PS3 Linux forums. The people wanting to turn PS3's into "PirateStations" weren't in the Anglophone nations or Japan.
And as I said, region encoding of games hasn't been an issue since 2006!
With games like Psychonauts, Bastion, Wasteland, Fez, Frozen Synapse, Brütal Legend, Aquaria, FTL, Super Meat Boy, Stacking, Shank, To The Moon, Hotline Miami,
Aren't those games "already" on various consoles? So why favor the Steambox, which isn't even on the shelves yet, when you can already have those games on a PS3/Xbox360.
Perhaps you aren't aware, but PSP, Vita, PS3 and PS4 games are not region encoded.
Oneof the reasons australians pay more is that it's a english speaking country far away from the other english speaking countries. It didn't use NTSC encoding or 120V power so they couldn't just send australia the US stuff, and they don't use American spelling! They also have a totally wacky and outrageous rating system. The exchange rate is also part of the issue. Not taking into account the tiny population. At least with the US, you can add Canada into that which makes over 300 MILLION people. Australia is less than a tenth of that. So basically they have to send Australia a customized UK version for what is, essentially, a niche market.
Besides Excuses about region encoding and whatnot are just that, excuses for impoverished Russians/Ukrainians/Poles/Thais/Indians/Brazilians to acquire media without paying.
The moment some media company releases stuff in those places, it goes up on "ThePirateHarbor.ru/ro/ukr/pl/etc etc. They tend to not respect intellectual property.
Think about it from a publisher perspective:
"Why should we release our stuff at all in a nation of thieves."
Let me guess, you're not a native English speaker. Let me also surmise that you don't live in the UK, US, NZ, AU, or Japan. Because in those regions....people actually pay money for software.
The only people wanting to start conversations about "flip-top" PS2's and HDLoaders on the PS2 Linux forums were not in any of the above countries.
The reason developers/publishers put more emphasis on console games (which are actually computer games since consoles are special purpose computers) is because console gamers spend money. Especially so compared to PC gamers in Eastern Europe and the Second/Third World.
I have two WRT54Gv8's.
The one that serves as the router has default firmware, it's as solid as a rock.
The second has been DD-WRT'd, serves as a bridge it needs a manual reboot now and then. I just go to it's configuration page and reboot it from there.
They just don't sell them at Staples, Best Buy, or Wal-Mart.
But that matters. Back in Linksys's pre-Cisco days, anyone could run out to their local wal-mart and pick up a nice blue stackable with their cable-modem Linksys BEFW11S4 or WRT54 for a fair price and it would provide good service for years of constant use.
I'm of the opinion that Cisco bought Linksys when they realized that lots of small/home office people were buying Linksys products because they were good enough and inexpensive and ignoring whatever overpriced gear Cisco supposedly intended for the small/home office market.
Why haven't you got rid of that BEFSR41, it's basically a BEFW11S4 without the wireless. the WRT54 can take it's place!
I've got second WRT54 in bridge mode myself, via DD-WRT.
I have two WRT54G's, one runs the default firmware and is serving as the router which it has done for years, the other was DD-WRT'd to serve as a bridge. (Linksys's old G bridge, the WET54 was overpriced!)
And I will keep running the things until they fail.
are people really flinging files around their home networks that much? No, the router is there to act as a gateway for all the tablets, phones, game consoles, Blu-Ray players, notebooks, that are probably all connecting wirelessly
It wants to install an "autodownloader.noarch" package on Fedora. I take it the data files are not in the repos? Be nice to know how big they are...ah looks like about 150MB total.
but I think that they really cut to the heart of the game without larding it up with too much cruft.
If you've ever read "The Princess Bride" you'll recognize the following reference. I call Civ: Rev, the "Good Parts" version of Civilization. All the fun without the tedium.
I'm sorry, but I've NEVER found a "resurrected" game that was any fun to play, no matter how much fun the first versions were Way Back When.
Not even the new XCOM? (the turn based one, Enemy Unknown, not the shooter one)
(especially since I never heard of Star Control).
What? I'm a console gamer and even I have heard of Star Control, course there was the 3D0 port of SCII that Ur-Quan Masters is based on.
what? You mean if a person levels their thingy on the PS3 and then takes their Flaming Dragon of Cuteness to someone who has the Wii version and puts it on their portal thingy, the Skylander still has it's levels?
That's nice, didn't know that. I figured the stats were stored on the regular game save and that the toy was just there to unlock the creature in the game.
The following statements I make really only apply to Eastern Europe and the Second Third World, not the Anglophone nations, France or Germany.
Well yes it's US only. The shows are made here and the US advertisers want to sell stuff to Americans, not former commies/Brazilians/Thais who still aren't quite used to paying for content yet.
Don't like it? Make your own stuff. Oh, that's right, you're not quite up to snuff with that either, for the most part. Keep working at it.
Well except for the Americans how are too japanophilic for their own good and pirate even the crappiest schlocky Anime japan produces...but they're just a whiny overly-loud minority.
The real problem is that the Emacs userbase/developers/RMS uses computers in the same manner as someone might at MIT in 1975.
They simply don't know, kind of like how the non-jabber pidgin protocols didn't receive attention or updates to match the features of the original programs because the pidgin devs were all using finch on the command line, didn't use X and didn't use the other protocols.
What standard are you talking about? Microsoft's?
No, IBM's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Blame the hunters themselves for that, when hunters began "Behaving badly" in greater numbers...farmers started get persnickety about allowing hunting on their land. Used to be the average farmer didn't care much, even a stranger could knock on a farmhouse and get permission. Now they all got no hunting/trespassing signs everywhere.
No one pays attention to it because it's full of corn and soybeans, not people! There's what...5 million people in cook county alone?
but I remember some late night commercials here in Chicago for a Mills Brothers collection that used to have be singing along. It was one of those really long late-night commercials. I can still harmonize with "Glow Worm" from those commercials.
Shine little glow worm glimmer glimmer. Yep, I remember that.
I don't know if it's just me getting old, but in the pre-cable days, television had a charm about it that it completely lacks today.
Indeed...I want the OLD WGN and WFLD back.