Steam is currently selling BF:BC2 for £19.99; when it was released back in May it was £39.99, so while it's going for £12.99 on Amazon & Play, it's still halved in price on Steam since its release (and it was available for under a tenner during the Christmas sales).
Before someone claims this is an isolated case, every single one of Valve's games has done the same thing. The only exceptions that I can think of are the ones they originally offered in packs, where the pack has dropped in price while the standalone game hasn't (barring sales).
Watch this carefully...if it works and is a game changer MS may well be forced into following suit and providing a forum for competition against their own very high cost products.
You are aware that Microsoft already has the infrastructure in place to do this?
Besides which, if MS had such a store on the PC that was bundled with the OS, they would still have control over what goes into said store, just like they do on the Games for Windows Live and Xbox Live marketplaces.
At the end of the day there is still a competition. I've bought way more $5-$15 WiiShop games than I have bought $60 titles that required I buy a physical disk. You are right, it's kind of odd to compare the two, as they are about as different as different gets. However, I have quite a few games for my Wii that only cost $10 that are about 100 times better than a lot of the stuff they used to for $30 or $20 in the bargain bin at Walmart. What it really means is that developers won't be able to charge a premium for crap games as they did in the past. Sure, top rated titles will still demand a high price tag, but games that require very little development and could be done by a couple of good developers in their spare time will no longer be able to sell for $30+. Which is probably a good thing for all gamers in the end.
Steam already offers this for the Mac. However, Steam also sells the beefier titles as well... sometimes for cheap. Steam also tends to have sales, including two back-to-back sales covering almost all of December.
Remember when they kept saying vista and win7 were built from the ground up - LMFAO forgot about that didnt you?
They did? I remember them saying that it was originally being built on the Windows XP codebase, but MS dropped what they currently had and started rebuilding Vista on top of the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 codebase, but that's hardly "building from the ground up."
The funny thing about corporations is that they can be bought or sold by other corporations.
In this case, Attachmate bought Novell. Once it purchased Novell, it split Novell into two units, and sold off a bunch of Novell's patent assets.
It's funny how quickly PJ is to point out how Old SCO and New SCO were different companies, but doesn't appear to recognize that old Novell and new Novell are different companies...
Re:Don't dare give us Linux and try to take it awa
on
PS3 Root Key Found
·
· Score: 2
Let the corporate world beware, don't tread on Linux. Big mistake to allow it and then take it away.
I think they only allowed it in the first place to try to get tax breaks in the European Union. So, after the EU decided that it wasn't really a personal computer, Sony pulled it from their newer models (the PS3 Slim never had Other OS).
However, it was tampering around with the Hypervisor that caused Sony to remove it from older models in a firmware update.
One of these is true about this statement: 1. That currency isn't USD (I can believe $80 AUD) 2. That's for cable service including VOIP, Internet access, or both. 3. You're getting ripped off by your cable company.
So, with my iPhone, at least it's not loaded with advertisements. Of course it brings in the Internet ads for me, but it blocks the invasive ones and I bless the iPhone for the lack of flash.
So... don't install Flash. Believe it or not, neither PCs or Android devices require Flash to be installed, and if it is installed, both let you uninstall it.
My understanding is that every PS3 game is signed with those keys. Therefore, invalidating them through a firmware update would mean that every PS3 game to date will no longer work.
While I wouldn't put it past Sony to try this, this would result in not only massive lawsuits, but also would be a massive PR blunder.
Having said that, there could in theory be some sort of additional key telling what date a disc was signed, but even if that were true, it would be trivial to work around.
No, the case as I understand it, goes more like this:
You start a website called oneplusoneequalsthree.com
I post on a third-party site (ripoffreport.com) that you suck and your theories suck and don't work
You prove to me that your theories are based in reality and could work.
I decide "whoops, he does know what he's talking about!"
I ask the third-party site to remove my original post.
The third-party site refuses to remove the original statement.
Now, here's the fun part: I, as the original poster, could (in theory) now go after the third-party site for copyright infringement for continuing to post my copyrighted post after I revoked their permission to use it, barring any agreement between the two parties that give them publishing right in perpetuity. Should I so choose, that is.
They can't even handle their own server farm? What does that say about technical competence of those employed by the government?
And you would think in these days of leaked this and that the government would try and keep their data a little closer to home.
They do! However, they probably determined it's cheaper to move some of their non-sensitive sites to Amazon EC2 (not AWS) and consolidate their sensitive servers into less data centers.
AWS shut down wikileaks why can't they do the same for the US gov or al the very least do some snooping?
One of these organizations has boatloads of money. Which do you think it is?
For a bit of fun, try out Translation Party, which uses Google Translate to convert text back and forth between English and Japanese until the English version is the same twice in a row.
"Thus, even though - as discussed above - the court ruled that Glider did not facilitate copyright infringement, MDY could still be liable under the DMCA for circumventing Warden's detection features."
So the DMCA can apparently be used to attack reverse engineering that was not necessarily used to facilitate copyright infringment.
"Not necessarily used"?
Here, let me simplify this for you: the lawsuit is over a third-party program that knowingly and intentionally bypasses the security protection scheme in a network client. Hell, I'm fairly sure any other program that does something like this would be considered malware!
Honestly, I don't know why Blizzard didn't just sue Glider over intent to induce contract violations (whatever the legal term is for that).
Usually economies run well if the government tolerates a small amount of black market activity. The tighter grip they exert, the less productivity there is.
...and the more star systems slip through their fingers.
You won't have to worry about MS License police deciding that you're not (any longer) qualified for the student discount and should pay $x0,000 in license fees and penalties.
Of course, this is ignoring MS's policy that you only need to be a student when you receive their software and can continue using it afterward. This applies to things like Windows, Visual Studio, etc... that are available through MSDNAA and DreamSpark.
You mean "selling phones with"? Why not find a vendor "selling phones with" 1.6? Anyway, hardly anyone has 1.6 anymore. What is it now? Less than 17% have 1.6/1.7 combined. As a company, surely you'd choose a phone and stick with it, just like you can specify/mandate OS, browser etc. You're talking about checking email, right?
No, he means pushing out. As in both selling devices with 1.5 and not offering any firmware updates to newer Android releases for them.
I'm sure 10,000 other Slashdot geeks are falling all over themselves to reply, but you can play Keen in minutes for free simply by downloading DOSBox and then getting the game from one of the many DOS gaming download sites like this one. Just about everything that ran on DOS is either abandonware or public domain now. Welcome to emulated retro gaming!
Since the key word in "abandonware" is "abandon", and iD still sells the Keen games, the Keen games aren't abandonware.
Prior to this, I don't ever remember playing Duke Nukem 3D on the pc with any more than one other player, over a direct connection (modem) or LAN.
Just because you didn't doesn't mean other people didn't.
My friends and I had LAN parties all the time, where we'd connect 4 or more computers together.
In the mid-90s, my friends and I used to play Doom, Doom 2, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D. and Warcraft 2 LAN games. DN3D and War2 both got a lot of play time, simply because they were the only 8-player games we had (the rest were 4-player; we didn't have Quake.) Games we moved on to later all supported 8 or more players (Unreal, UT, Half-Life, Starcraft...).
Slashdot Mirror
Before someone claims this is an isolated case, every single one of Valve's games has done the same thing. The only exceptions that I can think of are the ones they originally offered in packs, where the pack has dropped in price while the standalone game hasn't (barring sales).
You are aware that Microsoft already has the infrastructure in place to do this?
Besides which, if MS had such a store on the PC that was bundled with the OS, they would still have control over what goes into said store, just like they do on the Games for Windows Live and Xbox Live marketplaces.
Steam already offers this for the Mac. However, Steam also sells the beefier titles as well... sometimes for cheap. Steam also tends to have sales, including two back-to-back sales covering almost all of December.
See: Steam's Mac section.
They did? I remember them saying that it was originally being built on the Windows XP codebase, but MS dropped what they currently had and started rebuilding Vista on top of the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 codebase, but that's hardly "building from the ground up."
They did?
Besides which, the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator is only 4-ish years old.
The funny thing about corporations is that they can be bought or sold by other corporations.
In this case, Attachmate bought Novell. Once it purchased Novell, it split Novell into two units, and sold off a bunch of Novell's patent assets.
It's funny how quickly PJ is to point out how Old SCO and New SCO were different companies, but doesn't appear to recognize that old Novell and new Novell are different companies...
I think they only allowed it in the first place to try to get tax breaks in the European Union. So, after the EU decided that it wasn't really a personal computer, Sony pulled it from their newer models (the PS3 Slim never had Other OS).
However, it was tampering around with the Hypervisor that caused Sony to remove it from older models in a firmware update.
Fixed that for you.
Or did you not realize that Novell was acquired by another company a few months ago?
Is this the same private key that was discovered last week?
Here, let me light two of your strawmen on fire:
One of these is true about this statement:
1. That currency isn't USD (I can believe $80 AUD)
2. That's for cable service including VOIP, Internet access, or both.
3. You're getting ripped off by your cable company.
So... don't install Flash. Believe it or not, neither PCs or Android devices require Flash to be installed, and if it is installed, both let you uninstall it.
It's a bit late to invalidate private keys.
My understanding is that every PS3 game is signed with those keys. Therefore, invalidating them through a firmware update would mean that every PS3 game to date will no longer work.
While I wouldn't put it past Sony to try this, this would result in not only massive lawsuits, but also would be a massive PR blunder.
Having said that, there could in theory be some sort of additional key telling what date a disc was signed, but even if that were true, it would be trivial to work around.
No, the case as I understand it, goes more like this:
You start a website called oneplusoneequalsthree.com
I post on a third-party site (ripoffreport.com) that you suck and your theories suck and don't work
You prove to me that your theories are based in reality and could work.
I decide "whoops, he does know what he's talking about!"
I ask the third-party site to remove my original post.
The third-party site refuses to remove the original statement.
Now, here's the fun part: I, as the original poster, could (in theory) now go after the third-party site for copyright infringement for continuing to post my copyrighted post after I revoked their permission to use it, barring any agreement between the two parties that give them publishing right in perpetuity. Should I so choose, that is.
They do! However, they probably determined it's cheaper to move some of their non-sensitive sites to Amazon EC2 (not AWS) and consolidate their sensitive servers into less data centers.
One of these organizations has boatloads of money. Which do you think it is?
Translation software needs work.
For a bit of fun, try out Translation Party, which uses Google Translate to convert text back and forth between English and Japanese until the English version is the same twice in a row.
How in the world does a site get Slashdotted as soon as its article as posted? I mean, there weren't even any comments yet when I clicked it!
"Not necessarily used"?
Here, let me simplify this for you: the lawsuit is over a third-party program that knowingly and intentionally bypasses the security protection scheme in a network client. Hell, I'm fairly sure any other program that does something like this would be considered malware!
Honestly, I don't know why Blizzard didn't just sue Glider over intent to induce contract violations (whatever the legal term is for that).
Then just claim you're a home user.
You are aware that it's Home and Student Edition , not just Student edition?
Of course, this is ignoring MS's policy that you only need to be a student when you receive their software and can continue using it afterward. This applies to things like Windows, Visual Studio, etc... that are available through MSDNAA and DreamSpark.
And force Comcast to file 1100 new lawsuits to block them from doing it?
Original Slashdot story from December 3rd.
In case you missed it, the Chromium Blog talked about this in their December 1st blog entry.
No, he means pushing out. As in both selling devices with 1.5 and not offering any firmware updates to newer Android releases for them.
Since the key word in "abandonware" is "abandon", and iD still sells the Keen games, the Keen games aren't abandonware.
Just because you didn't doesn't mean other people didn't.
My friends and I had LAN parties all the time, where we'd connect 4 or more computers together.
In the mid-90s, my friends and I used to play Doom, Doom 2, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D. and Warcraft 2 LAN games. DN3D and War2 both got a lot of play time, simply because they were the only 8-player games we had (the rest were 4-player; we didn't have Quake.) Games we moved on to later all supported 8 or more players (Unreal, UT, Half-Life, Starcraft...).
"Yellow Eye needs food, badly."
You misspelled "Gauntlet," which was out 12 years earlier.
Oh, you were only talking about FPS games?
Even if you didn't like Quake, it had at least mod that seemed quite good that wasn't too futuristic: Team Fortress.