Re:Steam pricing is the weak point
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My experience in the US is that Steam is usually the same price or less than retail stores..
I've heard it's just the opposite in Europe, though...
Re:Problematic Business Model for customers
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So what's the problem? Run steam on both machines with the same login. Just don't try to run them at the same time - don't know what will happen there:-)
I was under the impression that using your CD key was one of the ways of retrieving your old account name and password.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how I retrieved my old information, although, to be honest, I still had my old email account as well.
P.S. I got the same mods and things for having HL1 registered.
Re:Speaking as a valve fanboy and steam early adop
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TF2 wasn't the reason I bought the Orange Box, but since I've spent over 200 hours playing it since I got it, it alone was worth the purchase. I've also taken to posting in my journal when TF2 goes on sale to try to get my friends who haven't yet gotten the game to get it. During the most recent sale, I thought Friday morning about getting it for one of my friends as an early birthday present, but forgot that Valve's "through Friday" means through 12:00:01am Friday.
I have quite a few games I purchased over Steam (69, the latest being World of Goo. No, that's not a joke.), and some of them were impulse buys that I later wish I hadn't bought. I am somewhat concerned with what will happen to the DRM on non-Valve games if Steam went under, but given the amount of sales Steam does, I'm not that concerned.
I'll bite and pretend I'm an average, computer-literate user.
Heck, I'll even spell out the logic for you.
1. "patented technology" -- Rambus has something to do with technology. 2. Is there anything in Rambus that the average joe might connect with technology? Yes, RAM is a type of computer memory. (This is something my non-technical mother knows, so the assumption that John Doe knows it too isn't a stretch) Note that I'm not mentioning buses, as John Doe's not going to know what that means other than a form of public transit. 3. RAM + patents. It's either a) a RAM manufacturer or b) a patent holding company ("patent troll")
I still play the Orange Box at reduced settings even though I bought my computer less than a year ago... then again, the video card in it is a bit on the weak side for a gaming machine (it was an HP Media Center PC) and I have a 1900x1200 LCD...
Hey, if it can associate information with Windows Live accounts, can it also associate information with Xbox Live accounts? As far as I know, they all use the same MS Passport username and password.
Just in the core, you've had the following changes: 4.1 to 4.2: register_globals default was changed from on to off. 4.x to 5.0: $HTTP_GET_VARS and $HTTP_POST_VARS are now disabled by default. Note that 4.0 didn't even have their replacements ($_GET and $_POST); they were introduced in 4.1. 5.x to 6.0 (coming soon): Safe mode is going to be removed entirely. magic_quotes_gpc is going to be removed entirely. Both of the settings mentioned in the previous lines are going to go (they were just disabled by default before).
That's completely ignoring things like the XSLT libraries being switched around... to my knowledge the 4.x library doesn't work on 5.x and vice versa.
Therefore if the game is multiplatform like the Sims and all the sound effects are.wav files, Quicktime will probably be used as the standard API to convert them for playback.
I'm surprised, I would have thought either OpenAL or CoreAudio would be used to play them.
Just because that particular judge hasn't read copyright law (which explicitly mentions copying in the section about computer programs) doesn't mean that other judges haven't or that judges can't eventually overturn this logic.
Funny thing about copyright law in respect to computer programs... I have the right to make any copies needed to run it on my computer already.
So, if I bypass the installer and uncompress the files to my computer, that's perfectly legal, provided the files on disc are not encrypted (the last part due to the DMCA).
So, yes, in theory it's possible to get around EULAs. Of course, most companies make it so you need entries in the Windows registry in order to actually run...
There is no public domain in the US. There are very permissively licensed works, but there exists no mechanism in US law for renouncing ones copyright.
Sure there is. Anything prior to... 1912, I think, is in the public domain.
Just because Disney^WCongress has been extending copyright length doesn't mean public domain is non-existent.
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My experience in the US is that Steam is usually the same price or less than retail stores..
I've heard it's just the opposite in Europe, though...
As I recall, it'll kick one of the two off.
I was under the impression that using your CD key was one of the ways of retrieving your old account name and password.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how I retrieved my old information, although, to be honest, I still had my old email account as well.
P.S. I got the same mods and things for having HL1 registered.
TF2 wasn't the reason I bought the Orange Box, but since I've spent over 200 hours playing it since I got it, it alone was worth the purchase. I've also taken to posting in my journal when TF2 goes on sale to try to get my friends who haven't yet gotten the game to get it. During the most recent sale, I thought Friday morning about getting it for one of my friends as an early birthday present, but forgot that Valve's "through Friday" means through 12:00:01am Friday.
I have quite a few games I purchased over Steam (69, the latest being World of Goo. No, that's not a joke.), and some of them were impulse buys that I later wish I hadn't bought. I am somewhat concerned with what will happen to the DRM on non-Valve games if Steam went under, but given the amount of sales Steam does, I'm not that concerned.
What, are you saying it's impossible to prove a negative?!
No, but you can slash this dot --> .
Wasn't MFC just a cheap copy of Borland's OWL? So, shouldn't we be blaming Borland for how crufty it is?
The Windows API, on the other hand... *shudder*.
I'll bite and pretend I'm an average, computer-literate user.
Heck, I'll even spell out the logic for you.
1. "patented technology" -- Rambus has something to do with technology.
2. Is there anything in Rambus that the average joe might connect with technology? Yes, RAM is a type of computer memory. (This is something my non-technical mother knows, so the assumption that John Doe knows it too isn't a stretch) Note that I'm not mentioning buses, as John Doe's not going to know what that means other than a form of public transit.
3. RAM + patents. It's either a) a RAM manufacturer or b) a patent holding company ("patent troll")
Wikipedia, apparently[citation needed].
"Even better, said Mr Boyd, games played via Xbox Live are not hosted on private servers."
Say what? The way I understood it, Xbox Live Gold is a subscription service because Microsoft owns and operates the game servers.
I still play the Orange Box at reduced settings even though I bought my computer less than a year ago... then again, the video card in it is a bit on the weak side for a gaming machine (it was an HP Media Center PC) and I have a 1900x1200 LCD...
The Usual Suspects are people!
A better question is, how would we know you don't have Netflix?
Hey, if it can associate information with Windows Live accounts, can it also associate information with Xbox Live accounts? As far as I know, they all use the same MS Passport username and password.
PHP has had its share of gotchas.
Just in the core, you've had the following changes:
4.1 to 4.2: register_globals default was changed from on to off.
4.x to 5.0: $HTTP_GET_VARS and $HTTP_POST_VARS are now disabled by default. Note that 4.0 didn't even have their replacements ($_GET and $_POST); they were introduced in 4.1.
5.x to 6.0 (coming soon): Safe mode is going to be removed entirely. magic_quotes_gpc is going to be removed entirely. Both of the settings mentioned in the previous lines are going to go (they were just disabled by default before).
That's completely ignoring things like the XSLT libraries being switched around... to my knowledge the 4.x library doesn't work on 5.x and vice versa.
I'm surprised, I would have thought either OpenAL or CoreAudio would be used to play them.
Just because that particular judge hasn't read copyright law (which explicitly mentions copying in the section about computer programs) doesn't mean that other judges haven't or that judges can't eventually overturn this logic.
Funny thing about copyright law in respect to computer programs... I have the right to make any copies needed to run it on my computer already.
So, if I bypass the installer and uncompress the files to my computer, that's perfectly legal, provided the files on disc are not encrypted (the last part due to the DMCA).
So, yes, in theory it's possible to get around EULAs. Of course, most companies make it so you need entries in the Windows registry in order to actually run...
Sure there is. Anything prior to... 1912, I think, is in the public domain.
Just because Disney^WCongress has been extending copyright length doesn't mean public domain is non-existent.
I'm assuming you mean case-sensitive operating systems, as (surprisingly) NTFS is case-sensitive... but Windows isn't.
He said telephone poll, not cell tower.
Why not just dist-upgrade?
Of course, i^2 was too negative, and its replacement, i^3 was imaginary AND negative... luckily i^4 had none of those problems...
Yes, but there's one thing you can say about Windows 8...
Resistance is futile. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.
I wouldn't think VS2010 would be in Microsoft Research, as MS has a team dedicated to Visual Studio.