$500 might seem steep, but if you look at your total cost over the lifetime of the console it would probably be less expensive in the long run. It wouldn't take too many $60 games to run up the total cost of your system to higher levels, compared to getting games for a quarter of that price on Steam sales.
I hope that you can install the applications anywhere instead of only under the Steam directory without having to resort to symlinks like you do now if you want to split up your SteamApps directory to different locations.
The problem with XKCD style passwords is the more characters in a password, the more likely I am to make a typo while entering it. I mistype a typical 8 character password a couple times a day. I can imagine what it would be like with a 25 character password.
I spent a lot of time wandering around that spaceship in World's Chat. I thought it was a pretty amazing program to have an online virtual world in 1995 when I was still on dialup. I quit using it when they started wanting you to pay. I loaded up the next one, Alpha Worlds a couple times, but it never had the appeal to me that Worlds Chat did.
I see these recent wave of kickstarts as the ultimate pre-order. As a backer, I get a lower price and maybe some extras for my investment, and the knowledge that I am helping with the creation of a game that I want to play but wouldn't have got backing otherwise. As a developer, you get your funding in advance, and anything sold after the release is profit since your expenses have already been covered.
I backed Wasteland 2. I would love to see another post apocalyptic turn based RPG, since Fallout 3 went in a completely different direction in regards to game play as it's predecessors.
Eventually one of these projects will fail, or not live up to expectations, but I hope that is the rare exception.
A new game in the style of Dungeon Master will be out soon. The Legend of Grimrock just reached release candidate status. I am really looking forward to it since I haven't played a similar game since EOB3.
From what I remember of most boot sector viruses, they would load themselves into memory then infect any other disc inserted afterwards. I had one on an Amiga game like that. You couldn't clean it without making the disc unbootable, instead you just had to remember to power down afterwards to prevent it from spreading. This was back in the days when many people commonly booted from floppy rather than a hard disc. Michelangelo was significant since it went after the hard drive boot sector, not just a floppy.
I remember seeing one bit of advice back then to just leave your computer off on March 6th, or at the least to change your system clock, since that was when the virus would be triggered. I don't know how many followed that advice, but I am guessing that many people did. I guess many could do that in 1992, unlike today where you can't accomplish anything if the computer is down.
I am comparing to the PS3 or XBox for instance which would be the competition if they are trying to get into the console business. If I buy a game for those, be it digital distribution or retail, every account on the console can play it, not just the account that bought it. That's why I said they would have to make some changes to their SSA if they do make a Steam Console.
What if I want to play a game on my Steam account on the PC and the kids want to play a different game at the same time on the Steam Console? Since the majority of my gaming is done on Steam on the PC these days, we would never be able to play different games on two devices at the same time since Steam only allows a single active login.
What about multiple players on the same console? They are going to have to come up with a family setting, because if it is just a single login allowed then my kids will be complaining about who gets the achievements and such, and I am not going to buy multiple versions of the same game for each account on the console.
Not necessarily an upgrade, but what I would like to see is standard parts that are easily user replaceable. The PS3 hard drive is a standard 2.5" drive is easily replaced, while the Xbox doesn't allow for a standard drive to be used as a replacement. I had the DVD drive quit reading on my PS2. I was able to clean and adjust the laser lens, but eventually it got to where it wouldn't work. I bought a new PS2 since the repair bill would have been nearly as much. If I had just been able to pop in a standard DVD drive it would have been a cheap fix. From what I have seen other than overheating, the hard drive and optical drives are the two most common failures, so I would like to see those use off the shelf components that are easily replaced.
in Saint Albans. That entire Charleston area is full of chemical plants - the nickname for the area is the Chemical Valley. Dow, Dupont, FMC, Bayer, Rhone Poluenc, and many others to name some present and past companies that have been there. The biggest was Union Carbide with several locations - the Institute plant was where MIC was produced in the US, the gas involved in the Bhopal tragedy.
I knew a lot of people that had or developed cancer that lived in the area and I remember seeing a study showing the rate was noticeably higher than the national norm.
The problem with these type of content locks are that once activated they are tied to the profile of whoever activated it. In my case I have two sons that play games along with myself. We just went through this with Batman Arkham City. Once one had activated the extra Catwoman content, then the rest of us couldn't play the same content on our profiles without having to buy it again. We could play Catwoman under the profile that activated it, but then any achievements would be earned under that profile only.
When I was working a government job and was trying to go back to the private sector, I had several recruiters tell me that they couldn't hire me since the had government contracts.
In the private sector, I had seen the same as well. A company I was working for as a contractor wanted to hire me as their own employee, but their contract had a poaching clause that levied a substantial (5 figure) fee if they did so. They did do it for one of my coworkers, but he ended up leaving in less than a year so they were wary of doing it for anyone else.
I don't see much if any savings on the latest NY Times Bestsellers, but I have discovered a lot of authors that I enjoyed at very reasonable prices. Several of the titles on the Kindle bestseller list were ones I had bought - I just finished one by Michael Prescott. At less than $3 many of the books become impulse buys and I will experiment with authors that I had never heard of before, something I would not do as much if the price were higher. Even then if I am unsure, I can always download a sample and see the book interests me before buying it.
Thanks for the suggestion Lord Pillage and elashish14. I had looked at Dia before, but found it lacked many of the features I used in Visio, though it is good for flowcharting and such. Though it's not anything Dia can make happen, many of the manufacturers supply shapes for Visio, so if I am diagramming a piece of Cisco gear I can have it look like the authentic equipment, down to the port level.
I am an avid PC gamer. I do not like to play a FPS or RTS on a console. I have tried gaming with Wine or Transgaming and while many games are playable, there seems to be some trade offs compared to a native implementation, such as speed or having to implement some workaround.
As far a productivity software goes, I could easily switch to Linux. Visio would be the one sticking point since there does not seem to be anything nearly as robust for network diagramming on alternate platforms.
How is an ISP expected to be able to determine whether a work is copyrighted or not? A review of an RIAA album might have the same file name as the actual copyrighted work. I remember that has already happened where a takedown was issued for a book report on a Harry Potter novel due to it having a similar title.
I don't want Amazon being the man in the middle on any of my https connections. It's bad enough that they would be able to see all my unsecured browsing by using them as a proxy.
To be honest, about the only thing I use the postal service for is Netflix since the majority of what I want to watch is not available on streaming.
The USPS is also very cheap compared to rates in other counties, for instance a first class letter in the UK is 46p, about $0.74 cents, and they are unable to raise their rates greater than the rate of inflation by US law .
I tried a VR helmet prototype at SIGGRAPH in 1996. Even with the vector graphics of the demo the immersion was impressive, but in less than a minute I had a headache. I am sure the technology has greatly improved in the past 15 years, but headaches was still one of the main complaints of the Nintendo 3DS when it was released. I can watch a 3D movie and do not get one, so maybe this device has overcame that problem.
I have been using Total Commander since Windows 3.1 as a file manager. Every version of the Windows File Manager and Explorer seems very limited to what I can do with Total Commander.
This new one even looks like it is a step backwards yet again. I hate the ribbon interfaces in Office 2007 and used a third party addon to get the old menus back, so I doubt if I will like the Windows 8 ribbons any better.
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$500 might seem steep, but if you look at your total cost over the lifetime of the console it would probably be less expensive in the long run. It wouldn't take too many $60 games to run up the total cost of your system to higher levels, compared to getting games for a quarter of that price on Steam sales.
I hope that you can install the applications anywhere instead of only under the Steam directory without having to resort to symlinks like you do now if you want to split up your SteamApps directory to different locations.
The problem with XKCD style passwords is the more characters in a password, the more likely I am to make a typo while entering it. I mistype a typical 8 character password a couple times a day. I can imagine what it would be like with a 25 character password.
I spent a lot of time wandering around that spaceship in World's Chat. I thought it was a pretty amazing program to have an online virtual world in 1995 when I was still on dialup. I quit using it when they started wanting you to pay. I loaded up the next one, Alpha Worlds a couple times, but it never had the appeal to me that Worlds Chat did.
I see these recent wave of kickstarts as the ultimate pre-order. As a backer, I get a lower price and maybe some extras for my investment, and the knowledge that I am helping with the creation of a game that I want to play but wouldn't have got backing otherwise. As a developer, you get your funding in advance, and anything sold after the release is profit since your expenses have already been covered.
I backed Wasteland 2. I would love to see another post apocalyptic turn based RPG, since Fallout 3 went in a completely different direction in regards to game play as it's predecessors.
Eventually one of these projects will fail, or not live up to expectations, but I hope that is the rare exception.
A new game in the style of Dungeon Master will be out soon. The Legend of Grimrock just reached release candidate status. I am really looking forward to it since I haven't played a similar game since EOB3.
From what I remember of most boot sector viruses, they would load themselves into memory then infect any other disc inserted afterwards. I had one on an Amiga game like that. You couldn't clean it without making the disc unbootable, instead you just had to remember to power down afterwards to prevent it from spreading. This was back in the days when many people commonly booted from floppy rather than a hard disc. Michelangelo was significant since it went after the hard drive boot sector, not just a floppy.
I remember seeing one bit of advice back then to just leave your computer off on March 6th, or at the least to change your system clock, since that was when the virus would be triggered. I don't know how many followed that advice, but I am guessing that many people did. I guess many could do that in 1992, unlike today where you can't accomplish anything if the computer is down.
I am comparing to the PS3 or XBox for instance which would be the competition if they are trying to get into the console business. If I buy a game for those, be it digital distribution or retail, every account on the console can play it, not just the account that bought it. That's why I said they would have to make some changes to their SSA if they do make a Steam Console.
What if I want to play a game on my Steam account on the PC and the kids want to play a different game at the same time on the Steam Console? Since the majority of my gaming is done on Steam on the PC these days, we would never be able to play different games on two devices at the same time since Steam only allows a single active login.
What about multiple players on the same console? They are going to have to come up with a family setting, because if it is just a single login allowed then my kids will be complaining about who gets the achievements and such, and I am not going to buy multiple versions of the same game for each account on the console.
Not necessarily an upgrade, but what I would like to see is standard parts that are easily user replaceable. The PS3 hard drive is a standard 2.5" drive is easily replaced, while the Xbox doesn't allow for a standard drive to be used as a replacement. I had the DVD drive quit reading on my PS2. I was able to clean and adjust the laser lens, but eventually it got to where it wouldn't work. I bought a new PS2 since the repair bill would have been nearly as much. If I had just been able to pop in a standard DVD drive it would have been a cheap fix. From what I have seen other than overheating, the hard drive and optical drives are the two most common failures, so I would like to see those use off the shelf components that are easily replaced.
WV has been the 2 letter designation for West Virginia since the post office went to 2 letter state abbreviations in 1963.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_abbreviations
in Saint Albans. That entire Charleston area is full of chemical plants - the nickname for the area is the Chemical Valley. Dow, Dupont, FMC, Bayer, Rhone Poluenc, and many others to name some present and past companies that have been there. The biggest was Union Carbide with several locations - the Institute plant was where MIC was produced in the US, the gas involved in the Bhopal tragedy.
I knew a lot of people that had or developed cancer that lived in the area and I remember seeing a study showing the rate was noticeably higher than the national norm.
The problem with these type of content locks are that once activated they are tied to the profile of whoever activated it. In my case I have two sons that play games along with myself. We just went through this with Batman Arkham City. Once one had activated the extra Catwoman content, then the rest of us couldn't play the same content on our profiles without having to buy it again. We could play Catwoman under the profile that activated it, but then any achievements would be earned under that profile only.
When I was working a government job and was trying to go back to the private sector, I had several recruiters tell me that they couldn't hire me since the had government contracts.
In the private sector, I had seen the same as well. A company I was working for as a contractor wanted to hire me as their own employee, but their contract had a poaching clause that levied a substantial (5 figure) fee if they did so. They did do it for one of my coworkers, but he ended up leaving in less than a year so they were wary of doing it for anyone else.
I don't see much if any savings on the latest NY Times Bestsellers, but I have discovered a lot of authors that I enjoyed at very reasonable prices. Several of the titles on the Kindle bestseller list were ones I had bought - I just finished one by Michael Prescott. At less than $3 many of the books become impulse buys and I will experiment with authors that I had never heard of before, something I would not do as much if the price were higher. Even then if I am unsure, I can always download a sample and see the book interests me before buying it.
What if I am still running Snow Leopard?
When dealing with the RIAA, bending over backwards isn't the position you have to assume...
Thanks for the suggestion Lord Pillage and elashish14. I had looked at Dia before, but found it lacked many of the features I used in Visio, though it is good for flowcharting and such. Though it's not anything Dia can make happen, many of the manufacturers supply shapes for Visio, so if I am diagramming a piece of Cisco gear I can have it look like the authentic equipment, down to the port level.
I am an avid PC gamer. I do not like to play a FPS or RTS on a console. I have tried gaming with Wine or Transgaming and while many games are playable, there seems to be some trade offs compared to a native implementation, such as speed or having to implement some workaround.
As far a productivity software goes, I could easily switch to Linux. Visio would be the one sticking point since there does not seem to be anything nearly as robust for network diagramming on alternate platforms.
How is an ISP expected to be able to determine whether a work is copyrighted or not? A review of an RIAA album might have the same file name as the actual copyrighted work. I remember that has already happened where a takedown was issued for a book report on a Harry Potter novel due to it having a similar title.
I don't want Amazon being the man in the middle on any of my https connections. It's bad enough that they would be able to see all my unsecured browsing by using them as a proxy.
To be honest, about the only thing I use the postal service for is Netflix since the majority of what I want to watch is not available on streaming.
The USPS is also very cheap compared to rates in other counties, for instance a first class letter in the UK is 46p, about $0.74 cents, and they are unable to raise their rates greater than the rate of inflation by US law .
I tried a VR helmet prototype at SIGGRAPH in 1996. Even with the vector graphics of the demo the immersion was impressive, but in less than a minute I had a headache. I am sure the technology has greatly improved in the past 15 years, but headaches was still one of the main complaints of the Nintendo 3DS when it was released. I can watch a 3D movie and do not get one, so maybe this device has overcame that problem.
I have been using Total Commander since Windows 3.1 as a file manager. Every version of the Windows File Manager and Explorer seems very limited to what I can do with Total Commander.
This new one even looks like it is a step backwards yet again. I hate the ribbon interfaces in Office 2007 and used a third party addon to get the old menus back, so I doubt if I will like the Windows 8 ribbons any better.