How does it help anyone other than you the way you propose, though? You said you won't use it because the license doesn't require you to give it back. It's somehow magically different when the license doesn't require you to? You would give back if you didn't have to? That's just... stupid. Or you're just selfish and lying.
Exactly. I like keeping my games installed, even more so on a laptop because you never know if you'll have a solid, fast internet connection if you're traveling. It may be enough to play multiplayer, but not enough to download a game you and your friends play. My steamapps folder is 220GB currently... that's a little excessive, but on my laptop it's still a solid 100GB or so with just my most commonly played games. Add in movies (2-10GB each) and music and other stuff you'll want to carry with you in a laptop and 320GB is nothing.
I think part of that is because people just don't know how to build desktop PCs properly. Lots of people buying too big of PSUs and too big of cases, and then doing crappy airflow management and such. I've got dual overclocked 6970's (flashed 6950 reference cards) and an i5-2500K@4.89GHz running in a mid-tower that weighs maybe 30lbs. Max. Stuffed it all into a CoolerMaster Storm Scout, GPUs never go over 88 or so, CPU never over 75, and that's with only having a swamp cooler, no actual air conditioning.
But I only bring it to LAN parties. I still have an HP Envy 15 for being productive when I'm not at home, and it's actually pretty darn fast for mobile gaming as well.
The i5-2500K won't do anything for your gaming, as long as you've got 4 cores already. 4 cores is really starting to be useful for games, though.
That said, I have an i5-2500K clocked at 4.89GHz, and DAMN does it encode fast. Standard profile H.264 at nearly 200FPS for DVD resolution. It'll hold about 20FPS for high profile 1080p.
I also agree... get an SSD for your boot/main drive. That'll make everything on the machine snappy. I put my steam folder on spinning media, though. I may have to upgrade to a Z68 mobo with an SSD for caching one of these days, though.
I'm actually dating a girl I met through OkCupid (much better site to find geeky and intelligent women, and it's free to message for everyone), and I've had a few others who I met up with for dinner and such.
Try getting into subjects rather than current events... ask them about the last thing they made, or last concert they went to or something like that. People love talking about themselves, and if you give them the opportunity and actually listen to them, it makes them feel important. Convince them you could show them a good time and hold up your end of the conversation by being interesting more than just talking about the weather, and you have better luck. Well, at least I have. And I'm a divorced, bald, 30 year old father of 2;)
Then you've either got a crappy profile picture or need to fix what you say in your profile. I've had at least a few start conversations with me, and I'm a bald, 30 year old divorced father of two.
Their friendliness with open technology and good engineering means that they can keep their web ads going without a backlash. You seem to think that Google is a zero-sum game, that if they sell ads they must also be doing something shitty behind the scenes. There's no reason for them to... a better long-term business plan (that it really appears that Google is implementing) is to just provide a damn good product, and not kill the golden goose so they can just keep profiting instead of getting crazy short-term profits at the expense of long-term viability.
But that's what most companies do, so I don't blame you for being suspicious.
The alternative is not having trucks deliver anything in the city because there's no legal way to park some of those vehicles. It's a government enforced scam.
Aye. I trust Ars because they don't live purely on game reviews. Gaming-only sites are always circumspect because they need the games to survive. Ars just kinda does it along with everything else, so they can call a spade a spade.
Show me any locked down phone that wouldn't be better if you had the option to unlock it. As long as HTC and Samsung keep providing competitive devices, the unlockability is a major consumer-friendly feature and a decision point.
"Fanboy" is blind adherence. If Samsung or HTC lock down their phones again, I would move elsewhere. But I will also support companies doing good work.
It's not DRM in general. It's the implementation. Steam is very good with the DRM... I haven't had any problems with it. A few with some of the DLC unlock codes for Borderlands, but that's it. I can play my games offline, I can play them on multiple computers, and so on.
The way Ubisoft does it is like how Blizzard does it... you're online, all the time. Period. If you can play at all offline, you get a gimped experience. Screw that. The only "concession" they've made is one to only check at startup, which is asinine. Check at install time? Sure. Check when playing an online game? Sounds fair to me. But checking all the time, or even "just" when starting? Screw that.
This story means that I'm going to recommend HTC phones over others to everyone I know, and buy them myself when I upgrade. Even if my friends/family don't unlock theirs, this news just gives me that much more trust in HTC hardware.
If you all of a sudden start calling a screwdriver a hammer, even if you say you're doing so, it still makes you look stupid. Words mean things for a reason. That's how we communicate. If you randomly redefine words to mean the exact opposite of what everyone else understands, it confusizes the meaningness.
Playing games with strangers can be fun, too. It's just you can't really play co-op games with strangers very well. Teamwork requires people to be part of a team, and many times the random twits you find online are more into griefing than playing. Or just play Leroy Jenkins style.
It's not a constant threat of violence. It's a constant threat of violence being responded to with violence rather than victimization. There are assholes out there who'll hurt other people to get what they want. Or just for the hell of it. If there's the threat of them getting hurt or caught doing so, that's about the only thing that makes them think twice.
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Hockey parents sound like they're setting up some massive therapy bills for their children in the future...
A bit of schizoid management, then?
How does it help anyone other than you the way you propose, though? You said you won't use it because the license doesn't require you to give it back. It's somehow magically different when the license doesn't require you to? You would give back if you didn't have to? That's just... stupid. Or you're just selfish and lying.
Exactly. I like keeping my games installed, even more so on a laptop because you never know if you'll have a solid, fast internet connection if you're traveling. It may be enough to play multiplayer, but not enough to download a game you and your friends play. My steamapps folder is 220GB currently... that's a little excessive, but on my laptop it's still a solid 100GB or so with just my most commonly played games. Add in movies (2-10GB each) and music and other stuff you'll want to carry with you in a laptop and 320GB is nothing.
I think part of that is because people just don't know how to build desktop PCs properly. Lots of people buying too big of PSUs and too big of cases, and then doing crappy airflow management and such. I've got dual overclocked 6970's (flashed 6950 reference cards) and an i5-2500K@4.89GHz running in a mid-tower that weighs maybe 30lbs. Max. Stuffed it all into a CoolerMaster Storm Scout, GPUs never go over 88 or so, CPU never over 75, and that's with only having a swamp cooler, no actual air conditioning.
But I only bring it to LAN parties. I still have an HP Envy 15 for being productive when I'm not at home, and it's actually pretty darn fast for mobile gaming as well.
Most things about a PC that feel "slow" any more are due to hard drive accesses. At least everything I've run into.
The i5-2500K won't do anything for your gaming, as long as you've got 4 cores already. 4 cores is really starting to be useful for games, though.
That said, I have an i5-2500K clocked at 4.89GHz, and DAMN does it encode fast. Standard profile H.264 at nearly 200FPS for DVD resolution. It'll hold about 20FPS for high profile 1080p.
I also agree... get an SSD for your boot/main drive. That'll make everything on the machine snappy. I put my steam folder on spinning media, though. I may have to upgrade to a Z68 mobo with an SSD for caching one of these days, though.
Nope. But it sure sparked a lot of discussion, and given that Slashdot is a blog, I'd think that's a lot of the point...
I'm actually dating a girl I met through OkCupid (much better site to find geeky and intelligent women, and it's free to message for everyone), and I've had a few others who I met up with for dinner and such.
Try getting into subjects rather than current events... ask them about the last thing they made, or last concert they went to or something like that. People love talking about themselves, and if you give them the opportunity and actually listen to them, it makes them feel important. Convince them you could show them a good time and hold up your end of the conversation by being interesting more than just talking about the weather, and you have better luck. Well, at least I have. And I'm a divorced, bald, 30 year old father of 2 ;)
Then you've either got a crappy profile picture or need to fix what you say in your profile. I've had at least a few start conversations with me, and I'm a bald, 30 year old divorced father of two.
Their friendliness with open technology and good engineering means that they can keep their web ads going without a backlash. You seem to think that Google is a zero-sum game, that if they sell ads they must also be doing something shitty behind the scenes. There's no reason for them to... a better long-term business plan (that it really appears that Google is implementing) is to just provide a damn good product, and not kill the golden goose so they can just keep profiting instead of getting crazy short-term profits at the expense of long-term viability.
But that's what most companies do, so I don't blame you for being suspicious.
The alternative is not having trucks deliver anything in the city because there's no legal way to park some of those vehicles. It's a government enforced scam.
Aye. I trust Ars because they don't live purely on game reviews. Gaming-only sites are always circumspect because they need the games to survive. Ars just kinda does it along with everything else, so they can call a spade a spade.
Show me any locked down phone that wouldn't be better if you had the option to unlock it. As long as HTC and Samsung keep providing competitive devices, the unlockability is a major consumer-friendly feature and a decision point.
"Fanboy" is blind adherence. If Samsung or HTC lock down their phones again, I would move elsewhere. But I will also support companies doing good work.
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It's not DRM in general. It's the implementation. Steam is very good with the DRM... I haven't had any problems with it. A few with some of the DLC unlock codes for Borderlands, but that's it. I can play my games offline, I can play them on multiple computers, and so on.
The way Ubisoft does it is like how Blizzard does it... you're online, all the time. Period. If you can play at all offline, you get a gimped experience. Screw that. The only "concession" they've made is one to only check at startup, which is asinine. Check at install time? Sure. Check when playing an online game? Sounds fair to me. But checking all the time, or even "just" when starting? Screw that.
He's not from the US. A number of European countries require merchants to take back software, because it's unfair to the consumer otherwise.
HTC was stagnating with Windows Mobile. They've grown leaps and bounds when they embraced Android.
This story means that I'm going to recommend HTC phones over others to everyone I know, and buy them myself when I upgrade. Even if my friends/family don't unlock theirs, this news just gives me that much more trust in HTC hardware.
Glee is a good show. Well, it was for the first few seasons. Jersey Shore though... ugh.
If you all of a sudden start calling a screwdriver a hammer, even if you say you're doing so, it still makes you look stupid. Words mean things for a reason. That's how we communicate. If you randomly redefine words to mean the exact opposite of what everyone else understands, it confusizes the meaningness.
Playing games with strangers can be fun, too. It's just you can't really play co-op games with strangers very well. Teamwork requires people to be part of a team, and many times the random twits you find online are more into griefing than playing. Or just play Leroy Jenkins style.
Grandparent was just incompetent in the search. Here's an actual USB powered vacuum
Because your genes can tell a LOT more about you than just your fingerprints. DNA is more than identification.
It's not a constant threat of violence. It's a constant threat of violence being responded to with violence rather than victimization. There are assholes out there who'll hurt other people to get what they want. Or just for the hell of it. If there's the threat of them getting hurt or caught doing so, that's about the only thing that makes them think twice.