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Disabling stuff in software, running XP, good god, someone put this thing out of its misery!
Honestly, if your going to disable something like the video/sound, that's what the bios is for.
And if you buy a rubbish all in one, of course you will get rubbish sound, just like if you buy a rubbish sound card. Some of the good quality all one MB's have some excellent chipsets built in. Logic prevails in this area, if you want to do professional sound recording you buy a soundcard matching your needs, if you want to play 3D games you get a matching video card (thought some MB's do come with not bad chipsets but the MB price reflects the addition of a video card that costs as much, if not more, as a standard MB.
People who insist that because its built in, its crap, do not seem to have perspective on the situation, a cheap and nasty all-in-one MB, will give you as much love as a cheap and MB with cheap and nasty add-on cards.
After having done various micro experiments, it seems apparent that price inflation/depreciation is a short term effect. If for example there is no mooncloth listed on the AH, listing the first item at an inflated price will result in most new items placed to be at a price just below that inflated price, effectively artificially inflating the 'standard' price, however testing has shown that this is a temporary effect as the cost of AH fees causes people to undercut other sellers until the 'globally acceptable' price is reached again.
Relisting the entire AH is an effective strategy for slowing this natural trend, however it effectively ensures that all newly listed items will undercut the existing artificial price, resulting in a loss of sale for the relisters, or requiring the relisters to actively purchase and relist all new items at diminishing returns.
Being on one of the most overpriced servers I'd have too say that the main effect of gold farmers is to increase the price of epic items, but also increases their availability.
Either way it is a short term effect. By purchasing items at the AH you are buying into a free trade economy and as such its effects. Ultimately it all comes down to supply and demand.
He he, and you think your LCD will provide better protection, think again geek! Time to rewallpaper your walls with tin foil! I should know, I did a study based on the initial research done by Markus Kuhn.
All I'd like to say is hand this guy a fucking clue....
"We're running a bit of an experiment. We're keeping track of the accounts that do this and will be shutting them off."
Does not mean, 'we are distributing it', I mean how fucking dumb is this guy? And 'accounts'? What accounts? What are you going to shut off? Your customers? Cause you can't do shit about the pirated copies. And if you had anything to do with the pirated copy, you just gave away your litigation rights.
If I own the copy and download another copy of the net this is legal! (think music terms), the only way it would not be if its stated in the shrink wrapped ULA, and that can be contested, and its PR suicide to litigate from valves point of view. I mean how would this headline sound "Valve Sues Customers".
If I don't own a copy, who cares, the only thing you can track is my IP, and that's dynamic, then you would have a john doe, case, try and get my name, and then prove I didn't own it. And the first thing I would do if I did get a legal letter, buy the game and I'm covered.
Fucking retard getting on/., how sad.
As for steam, I'm surprised that no one has brought up the issue of it being forced on HL1 users, I brought the HL1 way back. Now for me to play it I am forced to use steam. I never agreed to this nor was I advised of this when I first got the game. Yes I could make my own server, but it's forced by insecurity, Valve only provides an update path by steam so by default I am forced to use it.
And people think they won't abuse steam for their own good, has anybody here actually used it long term? Can we say "popup adds", "denial of service", "persistent self advertising", "silently pushed products" (unauthorized downloads of products), "marginalization of non-official content".
If the past is anything to go by Valve plans to use Steam as an aggressive marketing platform. And their attitude seems to be 'fuck the consumer', we are bigger than them.
Honnestly people, this is a serious issue. Do I leave now? or just stop showing up? Do I milk the job for all its worth, so I'm not forced to go work sooner when my money runs out?
My recommendation? Move to a socalist state, let the state support me! When considering moving, look at if they provide free broadband while they are at it:)
Hell its what I'm gong to be doing once I graduate with my MScCS:P
Ummm, not to be a dick or anything but if you planning on photographing the nigh sky generaly you use a tripod that adjusts for earths rotation, and for the poor students, they are not to hard to build either...
The vid is pretty lame. I mean it misses the best part, the full eclips, with the moon glowing all red.
Ohh you forgot to mention the doctoring of historical records to include the moon as well as the complete fabrication of the astrolable to highlught mans early understanding of the moons 'orbit'.
Don't forget the early warnings of this spy station on the use of werewulf stories.:P
Seen though a telescope (low power one:), a full lunar eclips looks awsome, I'd recommend the experience to anybody.
Having the moon hang there as this big redish sphere, you really get to see it under a different light [bad pun alert!], you realy get to apriciate its size, its an awsome experience.
You know I have been toying with how to waste my time, looking at different games.
I brought HL way back in the day, now I'm pretty pissed at Steam, I've played it quite a bit, but the more I do the more I hate it. All I play now days is Sven on 1.6 and luckily there are still a tone of 1.5 CS servers near me. I don't think they will be upgrading any time soon.
Some things to bitch about steam:
* Not everyone has a 10MBit pipe! * Releasing patches every couple of days is not fun, I want to play now not download! * Steam DOES go down, especially on Friday nights. This really sucks if your planning to have a lan. * Steam authentication servers are running on Windowz Boxes! See above. * Ohh yeah and breaking support of gamespy and other such suxs. * Forcing me to watch your ads is really cheap. * Don't try and coerce me into buying more games from you. All I want to do is have the games I can play now listed! * Breaking HL single player is really lame (elevator bug), not fixing it after a million other patches really suxs. * Surreptitiously preloading games that I have to buy is REALLY LOW. You cost me bandwidth and then expect me to be happy to be bombarded with ads to buy your game?!
The more I use it the more I feel like Valve and associates don't give a shit about their customers. The reality is that HL was a good game, but without a lucky mod made by the community it would be long forgotten by now.
I was planning to buy the retail version of HL2 even though it would have been easier for me to just activate it via steam since it already preloads without asking.
You have just lost yourself a customer.
Reality is I'll probably get dumped a steam free copy at a LAN, play SP once or twice and leave it at that if things this year have been any indication.
As for UT2k4, its looking more and more appealing. I've been toying with the demo and been pondering buying it. The fact that THEY release a nocd patch so I don't need to mess with CD swapping/cracking for a server hosted Virtual CD makes it very appealing. I mean I always end up cracking it anyway because of this, but it's a real hassle. I think I know where the money that would have gone to HL2 is going.
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FYI: University of Otago is where you go for an education in bing drinking, alcohilc bevareages and unsafe sex, not for a CS degree.
Nuff said
Mod this up, very informative. At last somone who seems to know what they are talking about.
Hey this is slashdot, your kind is not allowed =D
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You fail! Try again next semster.
In other unrelated news 68% of statistics are meaningless.
You fail! Try again next semster.
This sounds too awfuly farmiliar, god I hate ppl!
I wish we had cops like that here, all we have is noise 'control', who have no athority or power...
Welcome to New Zealand, however, expect to pay more than 35 pounds for 256kbps 'broadband serverice', and that has a 10Gb cap on it...
You havn't experience hell until you've come down under...
Disabling stuff in software, running XP, good god, someone put this thing out of its misery!
Honestly, if your going to disable something like the video/sound, that's what the bios is for.
And if you buy a rubbish all in one, of course you will get rubbish sound, just like if you buy a rubbish sound card. Some of the good quality all one MB's have some excellent chipsets built in. Logic prevails in this area, if you want to do professional sound recording you buy a soundcard matching your needs, if you want to play 3D games you get a matching video card (thought some MB's do come with not bad chipsets but the MB price reflects the addition of a video card that costs as much, if not more, as a standard MB.
People who insist that because its built in, its crap, do not seem to have perspective on the situation, a cheap and nasty all-in-one MB, will give you as much love as a cheap and MB with cheap and nasty add-on cards.
As they say, you get what you pay for.
After having done various micro experiments, it seems apparent that price inflation/depreciation is a short term effect. If for example there is no mooncloth listed on the AH, listing the first item at an inflated price will result in most new items placed to be at a price just below that inflated price, effectively artificially inflating the 'standard' price, however testing has shown that this is a temporary effect as the cost of AH fees causes people to undercut other sellers until the 'globally acceptable' price is reached again.
Relisting the entire AH is an effective strategy for slowing this natural trend, however it effectively ensures that all newly listed items will undercut the existing artificial price, resulting in a loss of sale for the relisters, or requiring the relisters to actively purchase and relist all new items at diminishing returns.
Being on one of the most overpriced servers I'd have too say that the main effect of gold farmers is to increase the price of epic items, but also increases their availability.
Either way it is a short term effect. By purchasing items at the AH you are buying into a free trade economy and as such its effects. Ultimately it all comes down to supply and demand.
He he, and you think your LCD will provide better protection, think again geek! Time to rewallpaper your walls with tin foil! I should know, I did a study based on the initial research done by Markus Kuhn.
Have a read for the interested:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/pet2004-fpd.pdf
The reality is they want to control what you watch, not what their kids watch. And that's why the V-Chip is not mentioned.
All I'd like to say is hand this guy a fucking clue....
/., how sad.
"We're running a bit of an experiment. We're keeping track of the accounts that do this and will be shutting them off."
Does not mean, 'we are distributing it', I mean how fucking dumb is this guy? And 'accounts'? What accounts? What are you going to shut off? Your customers? Cause you can't do shit about the pirated copies. And if you had anything to do with the pirated copy, you just gave away your litigation rights.
If I own the copy and download another copy of the net this is legal! (think music terms), the only way it would not be if its stated in the shrink wrapped ULA, and that can be contested, and its PR suicide to litigate from valves point of view. I mean how would this headline sound "Valve Sues Customers".
If I don't own a copy, who cares, the only thing you can track is my IP, and that's dynamic, then you would have a john doe, case, try and get my name, and then prove I didn't own it. And the first thing I would do if I did get a legal letter, buy the game and I'm covered.
Fucking retard getting on
As for steam, I'm surprised that no one has brought up the issue of it being forced on HL1 users, I brought the HL1 way back. Now for me to play it I am forced to use steam. I never agreed to this nor was I advised of this when I first got the game. Yes I could make my own server, but it's forced by insecurity, Valve only provides an update path by steam so by default I am forced to use it.
And people think they won't abuse steam for their own good, has anybody here actually used it long term? Can we say "popup adds", "denial of service", "persistent self advertising", "silently pushed products" (unauthorized downloads of products), "marginalization of non-official content".
If the past is anything to go by Valve plans to use Steam as an aggressive marketing platform. And their attitude seems to be 'fuck the consumer', we are bigger than them.
Honnestly people, this is a serious issue. Do I leave now? or just stop showing up? Do I milk the job for all its worth, so I'm not forced to go work sooner when my money runs out?
:)
:P
My recommendation? Move to a socalist state, let the state support me! When considering moving, look at if they provide free broadband while they are at it
Hell its what I'm gong to be doing once I graduate with my MScCS
They must have been dressed as 'terorists' :P
Ohh for the lov of god please! I mean come on, bush is back and now this! What is the world coming too!!!
Ummm, not to be a dick or anything but if you planning on photographing the nigh sky generaly you use a tripod that adjusts for earths rotation, and for the poor students, they are not to hard to build either...
The vid is pretty lame. I mean it misses the best part, the full eclips, with the moon glowing all red.
Ohh you forgot to mention the doctoring of historical records to include the moon as well as the complete fabrication of the astrolable to highlught mans early understanding of the moons 'orbit'.
:P
Don't forget the early warnings of this spy station on the use of werewulf stories.
Seen though a telescope (low power one :), a full lunar eclips looks awsome, I'd recommend the experience to anybody.
Having the moon hang there as this big redish sphere, you really get to see it under a different light [bad pun alert!], you realy get to apriciate its size, its an awsome experience.
so true, so true...
As for a solution, try airpwn, it worked wonders for me, everyone stops using wifi after they feel the power of goatse.cx!
That is pretty dubious, like saying that all cars that are not licensed are stolen.
Your logic is flawed, Imposter detected in the volcan high council!
You know I have been toying with how to waste my time, looking at different games.
I brought HL way back in the day, now I'm pretty pissed at Steam, I've played it quite a bit, but the more I do the more I hate it. All I play now days is Sven on 1.6 and luckily there are still a tone of 1.5 CS servers near me. I don't think they will be upgrading any time soon.
Some things to bitch about steam:
* Not everyone has a 10MBit pipe!
* Releasing patches every couple of days is not fun, I want to play now not download!
* Steam DOES go down, especially on Friday nights. This really sucks if your planning to have a lan.
* Steam authentication servers are running on Windowz Boxes! See above.
* Ohh yeah and breaking support of gamespy and other such suxs.
* Forcing me to watch your ads is really cheap.
* Don't try and coerce me into buying more games from you. All I want to do is have the games I can play now listed!
* Breaking HL single player is really lame (elevator bug), not fixing it after a million other patches really suxs.
* Surreptitiously preloading games that I have to buy is REALLY LOW. You cost me bandwidth and then expect me to be happy to be bombarded with ads to buy your game?!
The more I use it the more I feel like Valve and associates don't give a shit about their customers. The reality is that HL was a good game, but without a lucky mod made by the community it would be long forgotten by now.
I was planning to buy the retail version of HL2 even though it would have been easier for me to just activate it via steam since it already preloads without asking.
You have just lost yourself a customer.
Reality is I'll probably get dumped a steam free copy at a LAN, play SP once or twice and leave it at that if things this year have been any indication.
As for UT2k4, its looking more and more appealing. I've been toying with the demo and been pondering buying it. The fact that THEY release a nocd patch so I don't need to mess with CD swapping/cracking for a server hosted Virtual CD makes it very appealing. I mean I always end up cracking it anyway because of this, but it's a real hassle. I think I know where the money that would have gone to HL2 is going.
Would be nice if it I could actually get past the cut scenes and actually play.
So far the game seems incredibly boring consisting of watching 'loading..' with crap 2 sec cut scene every so often
RealVNC uses the DFMirage hook display driver, these I suspect are used by UltraVNC as well as a host of other ones I suspect.
This is why marketing and eng's shouldn't mix :)