You would either be crushed by the mass of rock above you or cooked by the intense heat since the only way to go directly from Germany to Singapore is through the Earth.
Did you see the subject line of your post before submitting it?
I don't understand. If you each have one Steam account, each of you should be able to play one game at a time -- and if you're both playing the same game, since you're on different accounts, it doesn't matter any more than it matters that I and a friend 2000 miles away are both playing TFC.
You seem to assume that both persons will buy their own copy of the game. We are talking about the situation you borrow a game from another person in the household.
With a CD game you can do that as long as you don't play simultaneously (since the CD is usually necessary for playing the game).
With Steam you will need to not only borrow the other person's game, but also borrow the other person's account. If only one PC can be logged in to the account at any time, this would block the other persons from playing other games under that account. (But apparantly this has changed so two PCs can now be logged in to the same account simultaneously.)
The problem is with the protest part: If enough people "protest" by not buying it, the "truth thermocline" (shamelessly stolen from a previous comment posted here today) will convert that into a "piracy" problem.
If a game has DRM I cannot accept, I am not going to buy it OR pirate it.
Reason 1: By ignoring the game, I do not count in any piracy statistics which can be used as an excuse for stronger Digital Restrictions Management in their next game.
Reason 2: I believe that I will hurt the game company more by ignoring their game than by playing a pirated version. If I played the game, even in a pirated version, I might convince others to buy it. Or I might add something useful to the game's online community.
I have a question about steam... how does it work if you have two computers (or more)? I mean if I buy Bejeweled, on my steam account, can my wife play it while I'm playing Civ?
Only one PC can be logged in to a Steam account at a time.
Most singleplayer games under Steam can be played in offline mode, which somewhat resolves this.
The safest way around the problem is probably creating one Steam account per game, but that also removes a lot of the convenience in Steam - and convenience is our reason for accepting their Digital Restrictions Management.
This is not like the metric/English dichotomy where the metric system is inherently easier because of its coincidence with base 10 counting; both time systems use the same hour-minute-second units and the only practical difference is who gets to call himself the center of the world.
Bullshit. We all (at least us here at/.) know our local deviation from UTC time. So if we get a time from some other place in the world in "UTC +xx hours", we can easily calculate the correction to our own time zone and DST, no matter where on the planet we are.
But if you use the shortname of a specific timezone, the info is only understandable to people who know the difference between their local timezone and the named timezone.
I've noticed that the more expensive a vehicle is, the more dangerous, irresponsible, agressive, and discourteous the driver. I wish someone would do a study to see if this were accurate or just my perception.
According to TFS, this was actually part of the study: "The number of territory markers predicted road rage better than vehicle value, condition, or any of the things that we normally associate with aggressive driving,' says Szlemko.
Someone claimed that a 9800 GX2 (which is identical to two 9800GTX in SLI) is a better purchase.
Some other one responded that the GTX has a significant speed increase over the old card and then went on citing this: In fact, it looks as though a single GTX 280 will be comparable to--and in some cases beat--two 9800 GTX cards running in SLI, a fact that explains why Nvidia expects the 9800 GX2 to fade from the scene rather quickly.
So in short, the summary says that a GTX 280 will be comparable to - and in some cases beat - a 9800 GX2. Would you call that a significant speed increase?
And for pointing that out I got modded down. The stupidity on Slashdot has grown to new heights.
See? This is because she is *woman*. Because man will keep SQL statement outside the script in a template. Who embeds SQL statements into a source code?!! >8-E
All other things being equal (no major bugs in one of the specs), USB-Intel would be the clear winner if the two standards came out about the same time, due to Intel's influence, name recognition, prestige, etc. The 5000 pound gorilla flattens the 200 pound monkey with 1 step.
Oh, you mean like Intel won over AMD with their attempt at a 64 bit processor instruction set?
(In case you don't know: They did absolutely not. Intel had to scrap their 64 bit processor because nobody wanted it, and today's Intel 64 bit processors uses AMD's instruction set.)
And if this one person happens to live in a territory other than the territory where cable TV providers are transmitting the work, then tough s#!t, right? And how can such reconversion apply to interactive works?
1. You apparently didn't get the point that such a modified doesn't need to be sold to the public. If you had gotten that point, you would have known that splitting hairs over cable TV territories does not change it.
2. My statement was specifically limited to movies and music. Those are usually non-interactive. And if they are interactive, it does not make any difference if converted TV panels are available/legal or not. So mentioning interactive content has no relevance.
Good luck manufacturing and selling LCD panel conversion kits without getting a big fat lawsuit under the DMCA
As in all other cases where copy protection of movies or music fails, only one person in the world needs to own the equipment or software necessary for circumventing the copy protection. He can then release it to the public in an unprotected format.
I think this is one of the reasons people download (the other reasons being ridiculous prices, etc). People realize that technology changes - CD collections have been superseeded by portable MP3 players (ipod and the likes), VCR's replaced with DVD's which will eventually lose out to blu-ray (once the prices down).
That is not a very reasonable reason for illegal downloads.
If you know that existing media will be incompatible with new players, and there is no legal way to move purchased content to new media, you are somewhat right.
But that is not the case in your example. You can play a DVD movie in a Blu-ray player. You might even get better quality out of your old DVD since a lot of new players can upscale the picture resolution so it fits your new HD TV.
So if you buy a DVD now, you will not lose the content (at least not this time - we can't know if the next movie media will be incompatible with both Blu-ray and DVD). You will of course not get Blu-ray quality from your DVDs, but it wouldn't be reasonable anyway to expect better quality than you bought originally.
I found the kneeling chair. It looks like it would be really uncomfortable
I have used the original Variable Balans for 20 years at home, and recently I persuaded my employer to buy one for work too. I easily easily spend more than 12 hours daily in those two chairs.
I have tried one of the models with a fixed bottom frame (or whatever you call that in English), and it was not nearly as comfortable. A few hours, and my shins hurt. I think the angles were a little different, but the main reason was probably that it couldn't rock so I had to sit in the exact same position all the time.
One word of warning: It took me several years to get used to the chair.
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Government authorization.
And government access to keys.
Did you see the subject line of your post before submitting it?
If you have read that in the EULA, I can't understand that you can't see the problem which is discussed here.
You seem to assume that both persons will buy their own copy of the game. We are talking about the situation you borrow a game from another person in the household.
With a CD game you can do that as long as you don't play simultaneously (since the CD is usually necessary for playing the game).
With Steam you will need to not only borrow the other person's game, but also borrow the other person's account. If only one PC can be logged in to the account at any time, this would block the other persons from playing other games under that account. (But apparantly this has changed so two PCs can now be logged in to the same account simultaneously.)
If a game has DRM I cannot accept, I am not going to buy it OR pirate it.
Reason 1: By ignoring the game, I do not count in any piracy statistics which can be used as an excuse for stronger Digital Restrictions Management in their next game.
Reason 2: I believe that I will hurt the game company more by ignoring their game than by playing a pirated version. If I played the game, even in a pirated version, I might convince others to buy it. Or I might add something useful to the game's online community.
Only one PC can be logged in to a Steam account at a time.
Most singleplayer games under Steam can be played in offline mode, which somewhat resolves this.
The safest way around the problem is probably creating one Steam account per game, but that also removes a lot of the convenience in Steam - and convenience is our reason for accepting their Digital Restrictions Management.
You have a lot of bumper stickers on your car, right?
Bullshit. We all (at least us here at
But if you use the shortname of a specific timezone, the info is only understandable to people who know the difference between their local timezone and the named timezone.
You could just as well measure time in inches...
Do you by any chance drive a white Buick?
According to TFS, this was actually part of the study:
"The number of territory markers predicted road rage better than vehicle value, condition, or any of the things that we normally associate with aggressive driving,' says Szlemko.
Well, we can't all be as clever as you.
Apparantly you are so clever that you know that the GP knew about the undocumented password in advance, even though he have not told us so.
Hey, "clever" does not even adequately describe this ability of yours. Perhaps I should try "clairvoyant" instead.
Uhm... If you actually run software which is vulnerable to "clicking on a link", I would consider that a greater mistake than the click itself.
And already 3 people took your bait without getting the joke.
Talk about a collective whoosh...
RAUTFS FFS!
Someone claimed that a 9800 GX2 (which is identical to two 9800GTX in SLI) is a better purchase.
Some other one responded that the GTX has a significant speed increase over the old card and then went on citing this:
In fact, it looks as though a single GTX 280 will be comparable to--and in some cases beat--two 9800 GTX cards running in SLI, a fact that explains why Nvidia expects the 9800 GX2 to fade from the scene rather quickly.
So in short, the summary says that a GTX 280 will be comparable to - and in some cases beat - a 9800 GX2. Would you call that a significant speed increase?
And for pointing that out I got modded down. The stupidity on Slashdot has grown to new heights.
Whoosh
Is that what you call "a significant speed increase with the new hardware" (comparing a GTX 280 to a 9800 GX2)?
Oh, you mean like Intel won over AMD with their attempt at a 64 bit processor instruction set?
(In case you don't know: They did absolutely not. Intel had to scrap their 64 bit processor because nobody wanted it, and today's Intel 64 bit processors uses AMD's instruction set.)
It will remain irrelevant to my original response in this thread for ever.
It will probably be relevant in other discussions.
1. You apparently didn't get the point that such a modified doesn't need to be sold to the public. If you had gotten that point, you would have known that splitting hairs over cable TV territories does not change it.
2. My statement was specifically limited to movies and music. Those are usually non-interactive. And if they are interactive, it does not make any difference if converted TV panels are available/legal or not. So mentioning interactive content has no relevance.
As in all other cases where copy protection of movies or music fails, only one person in the world needs to own the equipment or software necessary for circumventing the copy protection. He can then release it to the public in an unprotected format.
That is not a very reasonable reason for illegal downloads.
If you know that existing media will be incompatible with new players, and there is no legal way to move purchased content to new media, you are somewhat right.
But that is not the case in your example. You can play a DVD movie in a Blu-ray player. You might even get better quality out of your old DVD since a lot of new players can upscale the picture resolution so it fits your new HD TV.
So if you buy a DVD now, you will not lose the content (at least not this time - we can't know if the next movie media will be incompatible with both Blu-ray and DVD). You will of course not get Blu-ray quality from your DVDs, but it wouldn't be reasonable anyway to expect better quality than you bought originally.
More precisely:
The point is to make a utility that - when viewing the source code - appears to innocently...
It is no challenge to make a closed source utility which does something evil even though it appears to do something innocent. Most viruses do that.
The challenge is to hide the the evil behaviour in simple and open source code.
...turn the lot into a bulky and noisy 1 kW room heater. Remember to have an air gap between all drives to allow for air circulation.
1 kW may not be enough to keep you warm during winter, but it may help you survive if every other heat source fails.
Considering what you were replying to, you should then have used the words "some of them" instead of "they".
I have used the original Variable Balans for 20 years at home, and recently I persuaded my employer to buy one for work too. I easily easily spend more than 12 hours daily in those two chairs.
I consider them extremely comfortable. However, my chairs are of the rocking chair type: http://www.varierfurniture.com/default.aspx?menu=693
I have tried one of the models with a fixed bottom frame (or whatever you call that in English), and it was not nearly as comfortable. A few hours, and my shins hurt. I think the angles were a little different, but the main reason was probably that it couldn't rock so I had to sit in the exact same position all the time.
One word of warning:
It took me several years to get used to the chair.