Ah I was working by Norton / MS Office / [substitute other commercial app here] dates, where and product name has to be set at least 1 year into the future.
A bit like magazines and cover dates really... I never did understand reading the April cover in March.
Most users are invited onto the real topsites, if we take topsites to mean "the sites that real scene groups pre to" rather than "all the crappy ftps scene rels end up on but like to think they're topsites".
On actual topsites, paid users are often considered a danger and have scared groups off in the past. If you're not contributing, you might be a fed - although of course, even if you are contributing, you might be a fed anyway.
You get invited because you're in a group, or you're a siteop on another site with good content or group affils, or you're a courier with access to other good sites.
There is always DOSBox - but I know what you mean. It would be nice to have them in ScummVM, as it runs a lot of places where DOSBox does not run as well.
I would love to have LSL on my PSP at a decent speed!
You're right though the prices have come down and I reckon because they're providing a choice of three packages, and the high-end one is pretty much unlimited, I'd bet it's really only there to allow them to kick spammers and SSH scanners off the network.
My only worry with the prices dropping, is a fear that quality will suffer, either on contention, their backhaul and peering or even just support.
I would rather pay a fair amount for my product, cos I DO want it on day of release, than pay the amount with the 2 resales tacked onto the top of the price.
Steam IS more expensive, especially so in Europe. I've been turning to Direct2Drive and Metaboli lately, and only buying on Steam either during sales or old stuff.
Also worth noting the store bought DVD copy has the same lack of permanence, sometimes more, because of the activation policies.
I'm just waiting for someone to go bust and everyone find the game no longer installs off the DVD. Then where do we stand with EUCD/DMCA for ripping the protection off it?
Here in the UK, there are a lot of ISPs in the £5 - £20 / month category who do cap. This is because they can't afford to give you all that bandwidth.
There are a number of ISPs who charge what I consider a realistic amount, ie £25-£35 / month, and will actually give you an uncapped service.
You get what you pay for - people need to accept this.
Here, the broadband speed curve seems to be steeper than the "game size growth" curve.
I still prefer 4 hours of digital download to going down the shops and paying a whole bunch more for game if I want it NOW (talking about the UK here, 16Mbit ADSL in my case). As ADSL does not keep up with growing game sizes any more, BT's 21CN fibre network will come online.
There's a whole world of advantages to digital downloads: My instantaneous purchase are often made when the games shops are shut on an evening. They are re-downloadable, if bought from eg Steam. They do not require me to keep a stack of 20 DVDs next to my PC. They are often cheaper, especially if the game is not AAA just released. Automatic patching from at least of the platforms. The buggy DRM is often removed, meaning there's a good chance it'll next time we change architecture / OS.
PS1 and PS2 had the same development learning curve.
In the early PS1 days, a lot of people used the Sony provided libraries from the SDK.
As time went by, studios learned to master the hardware and use the limited resource more efficiently.
Same thing happened with PS2.
If they didn't want this to happen with PS3, I suspect they would have chosen a more conventional architecture and learned from what would have been the "mistakes" of two generations of consoles.
You know actual console hardware is often sold at a loss, subsidised by the licensing from the first few games you buy?
I seem to recall at the start of the PS3's life cycle the break even point was at about 5 games.
Admittedly, at this point in the DS life cycle, I would hope the parts have become cheap enough for them to make at least a small amount on the hardware.
This is pretty much getting back to the old-school "scene" days, where one kid had modem access to sites afar and everyone else leeched copies off them, but also handed them out to their mates at other school / colleges / places of works and someone would inevitably up it to the local BBS.
The bandwidth of the sneakernet is truly incredible!
For the majority of torrent traffic out there, I think we're safe to assume most people are not personal friends with aXXo, RELOADED, Fairlight, Outlaws, KLAXXON, etc etc.
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Ah I was working by Norton / MS Office / [substitute other commercial app here] dates, where and product name has to be set at least 1 year into the future.
A bit like magazines and cover dates really... I never did understand reading the April cover in March.
I have to admit, when I first saw the 3.1 to 3.5 story I thought it was a joke.
The fact some actual developement and graphics time and effort is going into adding 4 to a minor version number seems insane to me.
Crikey, why not just go ahead and call it Firefox 2010.
Whoa there, guess you didn't see the news...
The upcoming release of 3.1 is going to be named 3.5.
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/3.5
65TB of movies, games and apps.
Not torrents.
Apparently, it was an actual scene topsite, although I guess we'll wait to see whether any groups get busted.
Most users are invited onto the real topsites, if we take topsites to mean "the sites that real scene groups pre to" rather than "all the crappy ftps scene rels end up on but like to think they're topsites".
On actual topsites, paid users are often considered a danger and have scared groups off in the past. If you're not contributing, you might be a fed - although of course, even if you are contributing, you might be a fed anyway.
You get invited because you're in a group, or you're a siteop on another site with good content or group affils, or you're a courier with access to other good sites.
Yes, that was my point...
Where do you think a lot of these movies are ripped from?
I've seen a LOT of cam's from empty cinemas.
Maybe it is not aimed at cinemagoers, more projectionists?
You already can.
Very few of the games use Steam's DRM system.
My example of Bioshock stands again.
Please do check your facts before flaming wildly - that's twice now!
Wow - that IS pretty cool.
I'm just a shade further from my local exchange, but would really welcome some extra upstream!
There is always DOSBox - but I know what you mean.
It would be nice to have them in ScummVM, as it runs a lot of places where DOSBox does not run as well.
I would love to have LSL on my PSP at a decent speed!
You're right though the prices have come down and I reckon because they're providing a choice of three packages, and the high-end one is pretty much unlimited, I'd bet it's really only there to allow them to kick spammers and SSH scanners off the network.
My only worry with the prices dropping, is a fear that quality will suffer, either on contention, their backhaul and peering or even just support.
I actually use Be, but had not seen the recent price drop! It was Be I had in mind when I started at £25. :)
And yeah, they really don't mess you around.
O2 do actually have an excessive usage clause, but I don't know anyone who uses O2, so could not say for sure whether it is applied or not.
I'd love to know what games you're downloading every month that get you to 100GB.
Looking at the last few months large games, taking the largest possible download size for them...
GTA IV: 15GB
Empire Total War: 12 GB
EndWar: 10GB
Silent Hill: 10 GB
COD:WAW: 8GB
UT3 Black: 8GB
ShellShock 2: 8GB
Left4Dead: 8GB
HAWX: 7GB
All that and still we only get to 87GB. You buy all those big games in a single month?
Music is nothing compared to these, you'd need to buy 30 albums to even make one game.
Show me one game that is 50GB. What is 50GB, unless you're downloading BluRay ISOs?
I'm actually prepared to accept that.
I would rather pay a fair amount for my product, cos I DO want it on day of release, than pay the amount with the 2 resales tacked onto the top of the price.
Steam IS more expensive, especially so in Europe. I've been turning to Direct2Drive and Metaboli lately, and only buying on Steam either during sales or old stuff.
Also worth noting the store bought DVD copy has the same lack of permanence, sometimes more, because of the activation policies.
I'm just waiting for someone to go bust and everyone find the game no longer installs off the DVD. Then where do we stand with EUCD/DMCA for ripping the protection off it?
Point was... you get what you pay for, so you're probably not paying enough if your ISP is capping you.
If they're the only ISP in town, it still means they're not offering an uncapped plan.
Where does density come into capping?
Not sure what you thought the point was?
Simply not true.
As a single example, I have a store bought copy of Bioshock on my shelf, with nasty activation.
My Steam copy does not have it.
I can give you a list of another 20 or some games the same across Steam, Direct2Drive and Metaboli.
There are a few counterexamples, eg Mass Effect still has activation intact even on Steam.
Maybe it's just all the games I buy that have it removed? ;)
You get a proper ISP.
Here in the UK, there are a lot of ISPs in the £5 - £20 / month category who do cap. This is because they can't afford to give you all that bandwidth.
There are a number of ISPs who charge what I consider a realistic amount, ie £25-£35 / month, and will actually give you an uncapped service.
You get what you pay for - people need to accept this.
Here, the broadband speed curve seems to be steeper than the "game size growth" curve.
I still prefer 4 hours of digital download to going down the shops and paying a whole bunch more for game if I want it NOW (talking about the UK here, 16Mbit ADSL in my case). As ADSL does not keep up with growing game sizes any more, BT's 21CN fibre network will come online.
There's a whole world of advantages to digital downloads:
My instantaneous purchase are often made when the games shops are shut on an evening.
They are re-downloadable, if bought from eg Steam.
They do not require me to keep a stack of 20 DVDs next to my PC.
They are often cheaper, especially if the game is not AAA just released.
Automatic patching from at least of the platforms.
The buggy DRM is often removed, meaning there's a good chance it'll next time we change architecture / OS.
PS1 and PS2 had the same development learning curve.
In the early PS1 days, a lot of people used the Sony provided libraries from the SDK.
As time went by, studios learned to master the hardware and use the limited resource more efficiently.
Same thing happened with PS2.
If they didn't want this to happen with PS3, I suspect they would have chosen a more conventional architecture and learned from what would have been the "mistakes" of two generations of consoles.
You know actual console hardware is often sold at a loss, subsidised by the licensing from the first few games you buy?
I seem to recall at the start of the PS3's life cycle the break even point was at about 5 games.
Admittedly, at this point in the DS life cycle, I would hope the parts have become cheap enough for them to make at least a small amount on the hardware.
Ah OK, I was thinking of "free" software, as in the Firefox example, where your only license to use it is because of the EULA.
Seems you are thinking of "bought it in the store, now they're screwing me with this shrink-wrap-EULA" software.
I guess I RTFA'ed, with the shots of the unpaid for, free Adobe Reader?
This is pretty much getting back to the old-school "scene" days, where one kid had modem access to sites afar and everyone else leeched copies off them, but also handed them out to their mates at other school / colleges / places of works and someone would inevitably up it to the local BBS.
The bandwidth of the sneakernet is truly incredible!
For the majority of torrent traffic out there, I think we're safe to assume most people are not personal friends with aXXo, RELOADED, Fairlight, Outlaws, KLAXXON, etc etc.
I see Microsoft are already trying to get market share on your idea though... http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/19/1822236
Not sure what you're getting at?
The whole of section (a) clearly does not apply, as that is about your cat being allowed to make a copy for backup / archival purposes.
Section (b) allows your cat to resell it to you, complete with all the original conditions.
Section (c) is about tranfer for maintenance reasons.
So you're gonna have to be tad more articulate about what you're trying to communicate, rather than just linking something?
Not buying it.
Just cos you don't see it as a click through, does not mean it is not there.
Take a look at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/eula/firefox-en.html