So ruining someone's life by making it easy for someone to ring up thousands of dollars of debt in their name just gets a slap on the wrist, but try touching their woobally bits and we throw the book at you? How does that make any sense? Also what would keep the EFF from launching the spurious lawsuits?
One day my heart may stop, and then I won't be able to play any games at all. Whats your point? I have bought many games over the years that I can't play anymore. I have sitting on my desk right now the CD Case for Homeworld: Cataclysm without a disk in it. I have no idea where the disc is. Thus I have a license to play it; I own it in every sense of the word as it is used for software, but I can not play it without downloading the iso and a third party CD crack for it. When Steam does die then if it is the only form of DRM on these games, the single point of failure that you decry, then people will be able to break the protection for all the games with a single stroke by breaking the Steam DRM.
Yeah I've become kind of a Steam Sniper recently. Games I've been wanting to play for ages show up for cheap, and I grab them. Like this. Can you believe that? Commander Keen? What is the chance that you can walk into a retail store, and find something like that? It would have to be somewhere in the range of -20%. No retail store can ever hope to match the selection of an online distributor. Bandwidth and storage are a lot cheaper than real-estate, and once you get the licensing worked out you are golden on inventory.
Not a good idea. That's private property, and they can call the cops if you won't leave when they ask. Plus the likelihood of someone being willing to buy a game just on your say so that it is playable, and that it isn't stolen is very low.
The company doesn't invest in an existing indie game team. It creates a indie-like team with more of a focus on innovation than commercialization to serve as a foundation for new series, and gameplay paradigms.
Robin Hood was running a guerrilla campaign against the nobility in the area. Of course he gave money to the poor. They would have ratted him out otherwise.
Man I hear you on B&W. I bought B&W1 near the end of its life cycle, and loved it. The final patch was released about a month after I got it. I had heard the bugs were horrible at first, but dismissed that as hyperbole. After playing B&W2 I believed every word of it. The game was for the most part only half finished. They didn't even put in an enemy AI. They just spawn waves of soldiers, and send them at you. When instead of fixing it they started trying to sell an expansion pack, I vowed never to buy a Lionhead game again.
They have this weird subscription service where you pay them money to connect to them over your current ISP, and they pretend to be your ISP. Also Voodoo.
The moment someone hit the report this page button a page would be put up for a mod to evaluate it. It was a TVTropes mod who decided that was NSFW. Not Google. You think differently? Go report the page as SFW on TVTropes.
Is high interest bad? Doesn't that mean that they give higher returns on deposited money or is this just the interest on loans?
I can see that if the banks can raise the interest they charge on the money they loaned out alone that collusion would be a problem since otherwise the customers would just refinance with another bank with lower rates. If they all work together the customers don't have anywhere else to go, but I would think that if they all raised rates then unless there was some legislative block on credit union type places popping up to attract customers away that they would be limited by the chance of bank runs.
Google does not run ads on NSFW pages. It violates their TOS. People were editing in NSFW content on some pages, and one of the auditors at Google caught it. Now TVTropes has to make sure that any pages that may have NSFW content do not run Google ads.
My impression of MSE was that it had a huge footprint. I ran it on a laptop with 256mb of memory, and it used 130mb almost constantly. Of course 256mb isn't very common now days, but still.
The place that I work has this problem a lot (though on a lesser scale). The location of a number of businesses are jumbled around the area, and a good number of them wind up near us. We constantly get people coming in, and asking us for directions. I've reported the problem to Google a few times, but that most likely only helps them while all the GPS devices still have the incorrect information.
Companies have been doing this for years. Its just a tool which makes it easier. It looks for keywords posted to social network sites mentioning their products. They then have a CS rep join the conversation to offer assistance. It doesn't track individual customers at all. Mod the article -1 Alarmist rhetoric and move on with your life.
As opposed to the banks? Or the privately run "Federal" Reserve. At least with gold they can't just make infinite free (to them) money by dropping the reserve requirements to zero. We have to find some form of currency that is tied to the actual value of the goods in the market.
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So ruining someone's life by making it easy for someone to ring up thousands of dollars of debt in their name just gets a slap on the wrist, but try touching their woobally bits and we throw the book at you? How does that make any sense? Also what would keep the EFF from launching the spurious lawsuits?
A 3x3x3x3 hypercube.
Here you go.
One day my heart may stop, and then I won't be able to play any games at all. Whats your point? I have bought many games over the years that I can't play anymore. I have sitting on my desk right now the CD Case for Homeworld: Cataclysm without a disk in it. I have no idea where the disc is. Thus I have a license to play it; I own it in every sense of the word as it is used for software, but I can not play it without downloading the iso and a third party CD crack for it. When Steam does die then if it is the only form of DRM on these games, the single point of failure that you decry, then people will be able to break the protection for all the games with a single stroke by breaking the Steam DRM.
Yeah I've become kind of a Steam Sniper recently. Games I've been wanting to play for ages show up for cheap, and I grab them. Like this. Can you believe that? Commander Keen? What is the chance that you can walk into a retail store, and find something like that? It would have to be somewhere in the range of -20%. No retail store can ever hope to match the selection of an online distributor. Bandwidth and storage are a lot cheaper than real-estate, and once you get the licensing worked out you are golden on inventory.
Two nights ago you got some of the benefits.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/4629/
Not a good idea. That's private property, and they can call the cops if you won't leave when they ask. Plus the likelihood of someone being willing to buy a game just on your say so that it is playable, and that it isn't stolen is very low.
The company doesn't invest in an existing indie game team. It creates a indie-like team with more of a focus on innovation than commercialization to serve as a foundation for new series, and gameplay paradigms.
Robin Hood was running a guerrilla campaign against the nobility in the area. Of course he gave money to the poor. They would have ratted him out otherwise.
Man I hear you on B&W. I bought B&W1 near the end of its life cycle, and loved it. The final patch was released about a month after I got it. I had heard the bugs were horrible at first, but dismissed that as hyperbole. After playing B&W2 I believed every word of it. The game was for the most part only half finished. They didn't even put in an enemy AI. They just spawn waves of soldiers, and send them at you. When instead of fixing it they started trying to sell an expansion pack, I vowed never to buy a Lionhead game again.
They have this weird subscription service where you pay them money to connect to them over your current ISP, and they pretend to be your ISP. Also Voodoo.
Hopefully they won't actually be drinking it. If so they have more problems then just that.
The moment someone hit the report this page button a page would be put up for a mod to evaluate it. It was a TVTropes mod who decided that was NSFW. Not Google. You think differently? Go report the page as SFW on TVTropes.
Is high interest bad? Doesn't that mean that they give higher returns on deposited money or is this just the interest on loans?
I can see that if the banks can raise the interest they charge on the money they loaned out alone that collusion would be a problem since otherwise the customers would just refinance with another bank with lower rates. If they all work together the customers don't have anywhere else to go, but I would think that if they all raised rates then unless there was some legislative block on credit union type places popping up to attract customers away that they would be limited by the chance of bank runs.
Google does not run ads on NSFW pages. It violates their TOS. People were editing in NSFW content on some pages, and one of the auditors at Google caught it. Now TVTropes has to make sure that any pages that may have NSFW content do not run Google ads.
I'm guessing it will be something like
iBWAHAHA = 0
do {
wait(10);
iBWAHAHA++;
} while (iBWAHAHA != 10|bPaidOurExtortion);
My impression of MSE was that it had a huge footprint. I ran it on a laptop with 256mb of memory, and it used 130mb almost constantly. Of course 256mb isn't very common now days, but still.
The place that I work has this problem a lot (though on a lesser scale). The location of a number of businesses are jumbled around the area, and a good number of them wind up near us. We constantly get people coming in, and asking us for directions. I've reported the problem to Google a few times, but that most likely only helps them while all the GPS devices still have the incorrect information.
Double-blind studies are a type of study, but you don't need a double-blind study to have control groups.
Does it matter? Its not like these are one of a kind Tomes of Utter Significance. Besides, once scanned, they can be reprinted if needed.
Companies have been doing this for years. Its just a tool which makes it easier. It looks for keywords posted to social network sites mentioning their products. They then have a CS rep join the conversation to offer assistance. It doesn't track individual customers at all. Mod the article -1 Alarmist rhetoric and move on with your life.
As opposed to the banks? Or the privately run "Federal" Reserve. At least with gold they can't just make infinite free (to them) money by dropping the reserve requirements to zero. We have to find some form of currency that is tied to the actual value of the goods in the market.
After RTFA it seems they knew it was responsible for a century, but these guys figured out the way it worked.
I found the patent for it. The background section has a pretty good looking writeup, and is not a PDF.
Hey its a better game than global thermonuclear war!
Lots of data going in lots of data going out. Millions of people make trades on this thing constantly.