I agree, but if you or I got caught perpetrating a DOS attack on mpaa.com there is a good chance we'd go to jail. These people never will because they are special and we're not. That's my main issue.
Shouldn't admitting to a DOS attack in and of itself get people arrested? Who cares what the site they are attacking contains? They are committing acts of digital vandalism. Jail, please.
It does not support Visual Studio 2008. Only 2003 and 2005. Boo!
It does seem to be more than a physics engine, though. It comes with an asset manager with plugins for 3DS, Maya and XSI to ease conversion of scenes into Havok. This could be seen as additional features or bloat depending your point of view.
This will get them some temporary hype. This will get them more activity - but only of people specifically looking for discounts. This isn't going to make them more popular as a search engine. The only way to do that is to make the better search engine.
Here's where your analogies fall down: What EA was planning to do was pure choice, a choice based on greed and the fact that EA hasn't actually cared about video games for many years.
Shut down the forum, which is what they might as well do if they start asking for real verification. Would YOU give the Washington Post your credit card number? Or your driver's license? Also, they would have to actually check the validity of the info, which, in the case of credit cards means they need accurate billing info. If they don't do this I can use a credit card generator to make a number that will pass any passive verification they could use. Trolls on forums are a fact of life. Deal with them.
We go from:
Ubuntu most of the time requires no specific knowledge. Start the live cd, double click the install icon and click next. Wait fifteen minutes and you have a stable system. to
No, this commment would classify you as a bit of a n00b. You still using Ubuntu?
You can get broadcom cards to work using firmware from linuxwireless + the b43 kernel module. I personally prefer to just compile the Zen Kernel from git (not to be confused with Xen). It's bleeding edge and fast. http://waninkoko.info/?q=node/14
Otherwise, just build the kernel module and get the firmware.
I'm graduated from Kubuntu to Arch, and now am switching from Arch to Gentoo so I can have even more control and more speed. *blink*
Is that actually true for OS X? I've heard that many releases actually ran faster than their predecessors. I'm not a Mac expert. All I know is my old iBook won't run 10.4 or higher. I wouldn't expect it to, really - it's ancient. But system requirements are going up and that was my point.
The problem is not the increase in resource use. This is nothing new. Every release of Windows, most releases of OS X and even some new flavors of Linux have increased resource use because they do more. The big problem for Microsoft this go-'round is that Vista really doesn't give you enough reason to accept the increased resource use. XP is a perfectly fine OS and to get people to move away, especially if that move is to a resource hog, you really need to drop the hammer and give people a kick-ass must-have OS. MS clearly failed to do that in Vista and they're paying for it now.
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I agree, but if you or I got caught perpetrating a DOS attack on mpaa.com there is a good chance we'd go to jail. These people never will because they are special and we're not. That's my main issue.
Shouldn't admitting to a DOS attack in and of itself get people arrested? Who cares what the site they are attacking contains? They are committing acts of digital vandalism. Jail, please.
It does not support Visual Studio 2008. Only 2003 and 2005. Boo!
It does seem to be more than a physics engine, though. It comes with an asset manager with plugins for 3DS, Maya and XSI to ease conversion of scenes into Havok. This could be seen as additional features or bloat depending your point of view.
I, for one, welcome our new sentence-repeating overlords. Um...In Soviet Russia sentence repeats you! Um...Um...
Little help?
This will get them some temporary hype. This will get them more activity - but only of people specifically looking for discounts. This isn't going to make them more popular as a search engine. The only way to do that is to make the better search engine.
MGS 2 was the "last Metal Gear Solid." MGS 3 was the "last Metal Gear Solid." Kojima is the Barbra Streisand of video games.
I don't think it runs Linux.
I meant the protection they were going to use before they changed their minds. Sorry for being confusing.
Here's where your analogies fall down: What EA was planning to do was pure choice, a choice based on greed and the fact that EA hasn't actually cared about video games for many years.
I don't know about everyone else, but protection like this makes me MUCH less likely to buy a game.
Shut down the forum, which is what they might as well do if they start asking for real verification. Would YOU give the Washington Post your credit card number? Or your driver's license? Also, they would have to actually check the validity of the info, which, in the case of credit cards means they need accurate billing info. If they don't do this I can use a credit card generator to make a number that will pass any passive verification they could use. Trolls on forums are a fact of life. Deal with them.
If you think the blocky ASCII Dubya is bad, highlight his text. Holy crap.
Here's a random thought. What about rifles with laser sights? Are those WMDs now?
Welcome to my cave.
The problem is not the increase in resource use. This is nothing new. Every release of Windows, most releases of OS X and even some new flavors of Linux have increased resource use because they do more. The big problem for Microsoft this go-'round is that Vista really doesn't give you enough reason to accept the increased resource use. XP is a perfectly fine OS and to get people to move away, especially if that move is to a resource hog, you really need to drop the hammer and give people a kick-ass must-have OS. MS clearly failed to do that in Vista and they're paying for it now.
Yeah. Trying to connect to their web page feels an awful lot like trying to use Freenet.
http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulator_game.php?id=mame&game=mjegolf Mahjong Erotica Golf.
http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=7193&d=18&h=0
Looks to me like a hack of the actual C-64 Q-Bert.
I wish I could agree with you but I can't. History has shown that most governments care much more about piracy than they do child porn rings.
"Vzoooot. Cronk, cronk, cronk. Zip, zip. (Pause.) Gurlagurlagurla...zweeee."
Maybe some gangsta rap MP3s got on his computer...
I'm not normally a summary-nazi, but it's L. Ron Hubbard. Not Ron L. Hubbard.
"Avril Lavigne was first introduced to European audiences through FIFA 2003" Are they trying to blame ALL the evils in the world on video games now?
They should send a Slashdot user. We're all used to that "without sex" deal.