There is so many things wrong with that post it is not funny. The only 'greenlight' valve has is to prosecute you for copyright infringement, or possibly ban you from their network. All that other vigilante shit is still illegal. Also, the EULA has bugger all binding on the developer anyways, 99% of the time they are explicitly to take rights away from the consumer, not to say that the dev is gonna play nice and not nuke your computer. In any case, you are not 'violating' the EULA because the pirate version probably does not make you click an 'accept' button anyway!
Actually, a zombie will not be able to provide a matching domain key unless it generates it based on it's current ip address. So yes, it will shaft common people, and no, it won't benifit virus/trojan writers. Seriously, some chick at my work gets over 1.2k spams a day, if i don't have to try to slow them down again, I'll give satan i nice iced lolly.
Hey cool, I thought you were talking about the aus/us fta, for which i was preparing a joke about. as it is, carry on... something worthwhile might come of this one.
I would suggest a communist regime could probably get better value for money on scientific expenditure than america, i mean:
china: You're good at this, come out of the pre-fab population housing, and come to the slightly less crappy pre-fab population housing and build polar stations.
America: You're good at this, how many hojillion dollars would your company like?
heh, maybe i'll change my sig to: for insightful answer, please remove embellishment
Just a point about Nokia: they aren't in the same business. They may have been absolutely slaughtered by nintendo in the 'handheld gaming' business, but they made a tidy profit on their product as new model of phone. I'd say they'll just continue to release evolutionary hardware that capitalises on the niche of people wanting a phone that they can play good games on.
This is an interesting idea on microsoft's part, i'm guessing that they see the margins apple are making on their systems and want a slice of that sweet, sweet pie. From their position i'm guessing all they can see are positives, including that they will be able to completely control the software and hardware to completely illiminate piracy on any (internet connected) system, and they get the xbox2 software catalogue available on it without trying, as long as they don't stuff it up and tell the devs they can target any of the systems rather than just the lowest common denominator. Also a plus for them is being able to force updates to software to stop people hanging back on "less secure" programs that have less restrictions, ie media player 8 vs media player 9, so they can start really pushing rights restricted media.
All this and they get to sell it as a cheap games system AND word processor/browser, I think they'll get a few bites.
Probably shouldn't bother rebutting, since you kinda agreed with me but:
I have never made a page that was more than 5k bigger in tables than the other guy I work with can do it in css(discluding stylesheets, since they cache)
Whether I'm in php or asp, the entire layout is in header.asp and footer.asp which are included into every file, with a bunch of text with the least amount of markup possible in the middle. This makes it pretty trivial to do site-wide layout changes.
I suppose my language was a little strong there, however still feel it's correct; Which is easier, dropping '15px' in code, refreshing a browser to see how it looks, or dragging the side of a table (or div if you will) out a bit to get the right sizing. I've heavily invested time in doing it both ways and doing it in code just makes it harder.
I have yet to hear of any real reason to move from tables to css layouts, aside from the automatic entry into the elitist wanker class of web designers.
That is crap, a text editor CANNOT give you the same control as dreamweaver when building a table layout. I work 95% in notepad++ but whenever i'm doing layout, I still prefer to fire up the slow-as-shit behemoth to get it sorted.
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Offtopic, but i'd just like to point out that my sig also has a duck in it.
nah, cpu and ram will be used up by higher and higher levels of programming languages. Just look at.net, easy enough but a simple hello world has a 40 meg footprint
I hate those analogue buttons, especially in any racing game where you can't turn the damned things off. after an hour or so of play my thumb hurt so much i just plugged in my old ps1 controller and put the other one away pretty much for good.
I would suggest they have some kind of web trawler that looks for mentions of possible nintendo ip and blindly fires lawyers at the domain admin email address
I accept that this is little more than gta3 expansion pack 2, and i still think i'll have more fun with this than any other game this year, except maybe ut2004. It's a solid engine with a hell of a lot of new content... What's to whine about?
The problem with manual/printed copy protection is that the pirate can just scan the whole thing and put it on the actual cd. No need even for the person to be able to hack the software!
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I assume the usb adapter for the prebuilt x-arcade stick would still work with this, if you want to shell out extra
Language evolves, if i have to live with "Orientated" you can live with decimation.
There is so many things wrong with that post it is not funny. The only 'greenlight' valve has is to prosecute you for copyright infringement, or possibly ban you from their network. All that other vigilante shit is still illegal. Also, the EULA has bugger all binding on the developer anyways, 99% of the time they are explicitly to take rights away from the consumer, not to say that the dev is gonna play nice and not nuke your computer. In any case, you are not 'violating' the EULA because the pirate version probably does not make you click an 'accept' button anyway!
Erm, this does jack shit to piracy, aside from slowing it down by 2 days. hl2 is available via torrent since this morning
It's pretty much the same principle, except it's at a domain level (I believe) rather than a individual level.
Actually, a zombie will not be able to provide a matching domain key unless it generates it based on it's current ip address. So yes, it will shaft common people, and no, it won't benifit virus/trojan writers. Seriously, some chick at my work gets over 1.2k spams a day, if i don't have to try to slow them down again, I'll give satan i nice iced lolly.
Hey cool, I thought you were talking about the aus/us fta, for which i was preparing a joke about. as it is, carry on... something worthwhile might come of this one.
I would suggest a communist regime could probably get better value for money on scientific expenditure than america, i mean:
china: You're good at this, come out of the pre-fab population housing, and come to the slightly less crappy pre-fab population housing and build polar stations.
America: You're good at this, how many hojillion dollars would your company like?
heh, maybe i'll change my sig to: for insightful answer, please remove embellishment
Just a point about Nokia: they aren't in the same business. They may have been absolutely slaughtered by nintendo in the 'handheld gaming' business, but they made a tidy profit on their product as new model of phone. I'd say they'll just continue to release evolutionary hardware that capitalises on the niche of people wanting a phone that they can play good games on.
How did this get modded troll? He's joking you freaks!
You're wrong, even in a fluid design you still have fixed width elements, duh. Do you even know what you're talking about?
This is an interesting idea on microsoft's part, i'm guessing that they see the margins apple are making on their systems and want a slice of that sweet, sweet pie. From their position i'm guessing all they can see are positives, including that they will be able to completely control the software and hardware to completely illiminate piracy on any (internet connected) system, and they get the xbox2 software catalogue available on it without trying, as long as they don't stuff it up and tell the devs they can target any of the systems rather than just the lowest common denominator. Also a plus for them is being able to force updates to software to stop people hanging back on "less secure" programs that have less restrictions, ie media player 8 vs media player 9, so they can start really pushing rights restricted media. All this and they get to sell it as a cheap games system AND word processor/browser, I think they'll get a few bites.
Probably shouldn't bother rebutting, since you kinda agreed with me but: I have never made a page that was more than 5k bigger in tables than the other guy I work with can do it in css(discluding stylesheets, since they cache) Whether I'm in php or asp, the entire layout is in header.asp and footer.asp which are included into every file, with a bunch of text with the least amount of markup possible in the middle. This makes it pretty trivial to do site-wide layout changes.
I suppose my language was a little strong there, however still feel it's correct; Which is easier, dropping '15px' in code, refreshing a browser to see how it looks, or dragging the side of a table (or div if you will) out a bit to get the right sizing. I've heavily invested time in doing it both ways and doing it in code just makes it harder.
I have yet to hear of any real reason to move from tables to css layouts, aside from the automatic entry into the elitist wanker class of web designers.
That is crap, a text editor CANNOT give you the same control as dreamweaver when building a table layout. I work 95% in notepad++ but whenever i'm doing layout, I still prefer to fire up the slow-as-shit behemoth to get it sorted.
Offtopic, but i'd just like to point out that my sig also has a duck in it.
nah, cpu and ram will be used up by higher and higher levels of programming languages. Just look at .net, easy enough but a simple hello world has a 40 meg footprint
I hate those analogue buttons, especially in any racing game where you can't turn the damned things off. after an hour or so of play my thumb hurt so much i just plugged in my old ps1 controller and put the other one away pretty much for good.
This is true, gta san andreas looks like anus on a standard tv setup, though i haven't looked into anything other than an rca connection.
I would suggest they have some kind of web trawler that looks for mentions of possible nintendo ip and blindly fires lawyers at the domain admin email address
I accept that this is little more than gta3 expansion pack 2, and i still think i'll have more fun with this than any other game this year, except maybe ut2004. It's a solid engine with a hell of a lot of new content... What's to whine about?
I believe the origional quote was "The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math", obviously because it involves no skill and bad odds.
That last idea you presented is possibly the most unworkable idea ever presented for copy protection. Bring your computer into the STORE?
The problem with manual/printed copy protection is that the pirate can just scan the whole thing and put it on the actual cd. No need even for the person to be able to hack the software!