Or you can spend $15-20 a month and get a constantly refreshed and updated/upgraded system every time you turn it on.
Except that sometimes it will be downgraded in order to sell your data to the highest bidder and to make the migration infeasible or impossible. But hey, if you are still using MS Windows or MS Office, you probably don't care about these trivialities and cloud computing is right for you:)
May be you should listen to what they are saying. This is not about copy protection, this is mostly about ranking and security, as far as I understand. Read about tie-hacking.
Hmmm I think I feel much the same! Why won't they make all drops completely random, except for a basic category
bias whereas archers tend to drop drop bows, kobold miners drop hammers, etc. Aside from one-time-quest-drops, why
should be bosses privileged? They already have a quest progression (like in Stockades) where at a higher level you are invited to revisit
a dungeon to get yet another quest: that should suffice for a reason to run an instance multiple times.
But then, of course, people will concentrate on volume-killing for farming items. Instead of running end-game instances,
they will be running 5-cold-mage parties in killing fields somewhere ad infinitum, killing, I can only assume, boars. There are
various ways to fix this as well. One way is by creating items on kill and making younger spawns to have shit for items,
and making drops progressively better as the mob gets older. This, actually, could be quite interesting, as the balance could
shift towards lone hunters who seek out rare and elite mobs. Running instances would still be OK for drops (guaranteed flat drop
rate), but totally comparable with farming Outlands with a friend or two.
Another (imho, positive) consequence of making all drops random is the increased appreciation for crafted items.
To make a long story short, I am done with WoW for reason outlined by the parent. I would play MMO that rewards
solo players with all possible items, given enough time.
You're just fine with a single player game that requires a constant internet connection?
I expect my Internet connection to be on. I languish when it's not. I do not care if a game uses it to for copy protection, within reason. Give me a reason to care.
What if you alt-tab into another window and login to your bank to do some online banking?
Installing this kind of key logger is illegal, as you should know, so they won't do it. I am OK with a game tracking all my interaction with the same game. The game anyway knows all I do to it, so what harm is there in sharing these stats? This data may be useful for improving gameplay and/or marketing.
It's my computer and I decide what runs on it and what privileges it has.
Yes, I don't see how it's different after you installed the game I described. I specified that it should be designed to run in userland, so you will be able to control 1. when it runs and 2. how much resources it has.
You might be willing to hand over your entire computer to Activision but I am not.
I am willing to turn over enough processing power and network bandwidth for them to verify that my copy is legit by matching my key, yes. I am OK with them streaming some content to me as well. The game itself will (hopefully) consume a lot more processing power anyway.
If it is a single player game I should be able to play it offline on an airplane while traveling, or on my laptop when I'm away from a wifi hotspot.
If this is a real concern for you, get a free game, or get a commercial title from a torrent site. (You are even better off: your copy was free.) Even Stallman agrees that non-free entertainment software is OK. It's a decent compromise, IMHO.
I hate and distrust non-free software more than most, but I actually am OK with this type of non-free for big-budget computer games. Basically, I must be able to run them in the userland, privilege wise, and I want my privacy preserved (no submitting hardware/other software specs without my consent). Beyond that, they can do whatever chit-chat with the home-base they want. They can require uninterrupted Internet connection. (I do, so why cannot they? Being on the Internet is quite a priority for me, and I am not alone here.) A title can submit my usage statistics for itself. I am OK with all that producer-serving crap because its just a freaking game. It's a pure luxury and an expensive work of art, and I am thankful for having it at all. As far as copy protection goes, this is the least annoying one for me as a user. This is by far the best (for everyone) way to pay for big-budget games. The only thing better is paying up front for a free game.
[...] you're just wrong and rather ignorant of the complex interplay between work, production, economics and entertainment [...]
If you don't like how the major labels deal with production and distribution of their product, don't use them. Don't buy it. [...]
I wonder, do you understand the interplay
between work, production, etc.? Your advice is to boycott them, so they definitely won't see any cash out of you. So when you say "Don't steal[sic] it", you must be appealing to ethics, because you are just fine with the idea of hurting them economically. And we maintain that copyright law, in its present state and as applied to digitized fine art, is unethical. To put it very simply, it creates artificial scarcity where there is none. You can read Moglen, Stallman, Lessig for starters. They explain why US copyright law is broken and unjust, and imho they make a very strong case. Unless you are able to counter standard arguments, please do not tell us what not to do with Internet connections we paid for.
GATES
Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if anything, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
Homer and Marge step aside to talk privately.
HOMER
This is it Marge. I've poured my heart and soul into this business and now it's finally paying off. (covering his mouth) We're rich! Richer than astronauts.
MARGE
Homer quiet. Acquire the deal.
HOMER
(to Gates) I reluctantly accept your proposal!
GATES
Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
Bill Gates' companions begin to trash the "office".
HOMER
Hey, what the hell's going on!
GATES
Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!
I agree that installing something politically charged (like Firefox extensions are) should warrant a visual warning, but
removing the useful[sic] CTRL+ALT+Backspace shortcut
makes perfect sense. People who know what is up can still go to ctrl-alt-f1 and kill X from there. People who don't know what they are doing shouldn't loose all their data every time they smash the keyboard with their palm.
New notification pop-up, I think, is very nice, but it is definitely a matter of taste.
Yes. But this way is rather painless after the first build, and you get to have the very latest, natively compiled and optimized FF on the day of release with none of those Ubuntu dependencies which I find useless anyway.
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I just don't think it was worth a college tuition.
Did you guys do it?
And why?
Or you can spend $15-20 a month and get a constantly refreshed and updated/upgraded system every time you turn it on.
Except that sometimes it will be downgraded in order to sell your data to the highest bidder and to make the migration infeasible or impossible. But hey, if you are still using MS Windows or MS Office, you probably don't care about these trivialities and cloud computing is right for you :)
This is an UI setting in Vista, it can be altered in seconds and has nothing to do with Firefox.
Ending sentences with prepositions is what you are accustomed to?
Real geeks run their own wave server. [Sigh]
The editor might have approved this submission just to meet some kind of deadline or a minimum requirement.
I find it very interesting that there seems to be no proof anymore that this ever took place.
Reply to this post if you saw the original.
May be you should listen to what they are saying. This is not about copy protection, this is mostly about ranking and security, as far as I understand. Read about tie-hacking.
Hmmm I think I feel much the same! Why won't they make all drops completely random, except for a basic category bias whereas archers tend to drop drop bows, kobold miners drop hammers, etc. Aside from one-time-quest-drops, why should be bosses privileged? They already have a quest progression (like in Stockades) where at a higher level you are invited to revisit a dungeon to get yet another quest: that should suffice for a reason to run an instance multiple times.
But then, of course, people will concentrate on volume-killing for farming items. Instead of running end-game instances, they will be running 5-cold-mage parties in killing fields somewhere ad infinitum, killing, I can only assume, boars. There are various ways to fix this as well. One way is by creating items on kill and making younger spawns to have shit for items, and making drops progressively better as the mob gets older. This, actually, could be quite interesting, as the balance could shift towards lone hunters who seek out rare and elite mobs. Running instances would still be OK for drops (guaranteed flat drop rate), but totally comparable with farming Outlands with a friend or two.
Another (imho, positive) consequence of making all drops random is the increased appreciation for crafted items.
To make a long story short, I am done with WoW for reason outlined by the parent. I would play MMO that rewards solo players with all possible items, given enough time.
You're just fine with a single player game that requires a constant internet connection?
I expect my Internet connection to be on. I languish when it's not. I do not care if a game uses it to for copy protection, within reason. Give me a reason to care.
What if you alt-tab into another window and login to your bank to do some online banking?
Installing this kind of key logger is illegal, as you should know, so they won't do it. I am OK with a game tracking all my interaction with the same game. The game anyway knows all I do to it, so what harm is there in sharing these stats? This data may be useful for improving gameplay and/or marketing.
It's my computer and I decide what runs on it and what privileges it has.
Yes, I don't see how it's different after you installed the game I described. I specified that it should be designed to run in userland, so you will be able to control 1. when it runs and 2. how much resources it has.
You might be willing to hand over your entire computer to Activision but I am not.
I am willing to turn over enough processing power and network bandwidth for them to verify that my copy is legit by matching my key, yes. I am OK with them streaming some content to me as well. The game itself will (hopefully) consume a lot more processing power anyway.
If it is a single player game I should be able to play it offline on an airplane while traveling, or on my laptop when I'm away from a wifi hotspot.
If this is a real concern for you, get a free game, or get a commercial title from a torrent site. (You are even better off: your copy was free.) Even Stallman agrees that non-free entertainment software is OK. It's a decent compromise, IMHO.
I hate and distrust non-free software more than most, but I actually am OK with this type of non-free for big-budget computer games. Basically, I must be able to run them in the userland, privilege wise, and I want my privacy preserved (no submitting hardware/other software specs without my consent). Beyond that, they can do whatever chit-chat with the home-base they want. They can require uninterrupted Internet connection. (I do, so why cannot they? Being on the Internet is quite a priority for me, and I am not alone here.) A title can submit my usage statistics for itself. I am OK with all that producer-serving crap because its just a freaking game. It's a pure luxury and an expensive work of art, and I am thankful for having it at all. As far as copy protection goes, this is the least annoying one for me as a user. This is by far the best (for everyone) way to pay for big-budget games. The only thing better is paying up front for a free game.
[...] you're just wrong and rather ignorant of the complex interplay between work, production, economics and entertainment [...]
If you don't like how the major labels deal with production and distribution of their product, don't use them. Don't buy it. [...]
I wonder, do you understand the interplay between work, production, etc.? Your advice is to boycott them, so they definitely won't see any cash out of you. So when you say "Don't steal[sic] it", you must be appealing to ethics, because you are just fine with the idea of hurting them economically. And we maintain that copyright law, in its present state and as applied to digitized fine art, is unethical. To put it very simply, it creates artificial scarcity where there is none. You can read Moglen, Stallman, Lessig for starters. They explain why US copyright law is broken and unjust, and imho they make a very strong case. Unless you are able to counter standard arguments, please do not tell us what not to do with Internet connections we paid for.
New York... A friend of a friend once told me that Phoenix AZ has a meth van rolling which allows credit card transactions. Now that's convenience!
PS: See if you can spot the worst place on Earth on that map.
GATES Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if anything, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
Homer and Marge step aside to talk privately.
HOMER This is it Marge. I've poured my heart and soul into this business and now it's finally paying off. (covering his mouth) We're rich! Richer than astronauts.
MARGE Homer quiet. Acquire the deal.
HOMER (to Gates) I reluctantly accept your proposal!
GATES Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
Bill Gates' companions begin to trash the "office".
HOMER Hey, what the hell's going on!
GATES Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!
Bill Gates lets out a maniacal laugh.
They're the Energizer Bunny of the computer world, even if they have to steal or assassinate their competition to keep going.
This is just in: Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.
Free useful harmless junk! Who could turn it down?
Yes. However, CTRL+ALT+F1 does not kill anything, it just transfers you to a console. CTRL+ALT+Backspace kills X (and everything in it) instantly.
I agree that installing something politically charged (like Firefox extensions are) should warrant a visual warning, but
removing the useful[sic] CTRL+ALT+Backspace shortcut
makes perfect sense. People who know what is up can still go to ctrl-alt-f1 and kill X from there. People who don't know what they are doing shouldn't loose all their data every time they smash the keyboard with their palm.
New notification pop-up, I think, is very nice, but it is definitely a matter of taste.
Um, actually, it's "Gram-ma Nazis".
I never "make install", so I don't have to worry about cleaning up. Rolling a deb seems like extra work, imho.
Yes. But this way is rather painless after the first build, and you get to have the very latest, natively compiled and optimized FF on the day of release with none of those Ubuntu dependencies which I find useless anyway.
0. Once prerequisites are installed on Ubuntu,
1. Download the source:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5.2/source/firefox-3.5.2-source.tar.bz2
2. Unpack source:
tar xvfj firefox-3.5.2-source.tar.bz2
3. Create .mozconfig in the top-level directory:
. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir-ff-release
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4"
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
export CFLAGS="-gstabs+"
export CXXFLAGS="-gstabs+"
4. make -f client.mk
5. Enjoy objdir-ff-release/dist/bin/firefox
My bad. I just could not believe that someone suggested using command line in Windows. What an age we live in...