I think you are confusing settlement for awarded damages. Yes 1500$ would be a fair ruling if they went to court and lost, and were court ordered to pay 1500$ worth of damages. A settlement might be for 500-1000$ and to avoid court. All reasonable.
That is not happening. What is happening is to large Italian fellow in dark suit show up at your door and demand 1500$ in protection money otherwise "it would be a shame if we ruined your life financially"...
OK I may have made that up. But the basic premise is true, when you target and threaten a large mass of people with damages of several million dollars (not to mention lawyer and court fees), and say well if you pay us 1500$ this will all go away... then that is not a settlement. That is extortion. The media companies have turned the legal system into a baseball bat to beat and threaten people with, and all they had to do was pay some politicians to do it.
Copyright needs reform, as do the laws surrounding it. The problem is so do politics, and so long as they are accepting money from the media lobby, neither will actually happen.
The Core i5-655K and Core i7-875K have two and four cores, respectively, and they're priced at just $216 and $342. It appears that both will easily hit speeds in excess of 4GHz with air cooling.
I can buy a regular i5-750 quad core that will air OC to 3.6-3.8Ghz for about 215$ CND. So I can get a slightly faster dual core for the same price? yhippie.
So what is so special about these chips and why would I buy them? Anyway they don't seem all that special a deal. Unlocked multiplyer is neat, but the pricing VS performance I don't think makes any sense.
Same goes for the folks that buy a 200$ CPU and a 100$ cooler, then they could have just bought a 300$ CPU to begin with. Particulary when they mess with socket specs all the time making your previous cooling setup worthless.
Anyway if your doing it for fun whatever, it is. Just it doesn't make sense all the time. Getting as much out of your CPU just makes sense, but buying assuming OC is a bad idea, even with an unlocked multiplyer, there is nothing to say it will hit the 4+Ghz mark, and if you don't nothing you can do about it.
You do not understand English, Sentences, basic fundamental communication, and perhaps a lack of reasoning skills. Maybe you can't read, however you appear to be able to write, which is puzzling and distressing.
I said they must think their users are idiots for A) thinking that the elimination of LAN is for the benefit of the user, and B) as per the article thinking that they are better than other software companies and their limiting restrictive DRM, because they didn't specifically call it that.
Yet you will HAVE to authenticate Online to play. Yet you will HAVE to use their service to play multiplayer.
I am just pointing out very obvious things that should be apparent to anyone with half a brain. They aren't as bad as UbiSoft, but they do have DRM. Which is why I coined "they must think their users are idiots"...
Considering I am arguing with an idiot that I guess agrees with Blizzard, then this not only proves my hypothesis but also affirms that perhaps Blizzard is correct in assuming that their users ARE idiots, as we seem to have living proof.
Nope. Warcraft 2 would be a sequel to Warcraft, just like Warcraft 3 would be a sequel to Warcraft 2...
See a trend? A pattern?
Being based on something and being the next game in a sequel are two different things.
If Blizzard actually finished "Starcraft: Ghost" then I wouldn't expect LAN play in that game. Because it is fundamentally a different game. Just like World of Warcraft is a fundamentally different game than Warcraft. It isn't even the same genre. One is a Real Time Strategy and the other is a MMORPG. I believe Ghost was supposed to be a FPS or something along those lines.
So apparently you are another idiot. If you have a legitimate argument, or even an argument that perhaps I don't agree with, but at least makes sense, then you won't get the anger. Smarmy idiots and their lackeys, I have anger aplenty.
If the game was called BlastWars, and it didn't have LAN I wouldn't say boo.
If your making a sequel and you take away a popular feature that was available in the first one, with the intent of doing so to prevent that type of play only because you want less pirating , then you have to be held to account for it. Your supposed to add features to preexisting products to encourage people to buy them, not take them away.
Blizzard is resting on its laurels of its reputation and that of StarCraft. They can and will get away with it, because they can. Doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
If BattleNet is done right, I don't see it as that big a deal. Considering Blizzard is behind it, and seem to be leveraging all their games with it, likely it will be well done. However it is worrisome. It is a single point of failure with no recourse.
Don't get me wrong its not as bad as UbiSoft's halfbaked idea about continuous online authentication (no idea how they even got that stupid idea through to production, it boggles my mind it is such a bad decision, both from a business and a software perspective got approved), however it isn't that large a leap to force online "activation", and then force users to use their service for all multiplayer. Sure you could play the single player and not use BattleNet, but most people are buying StarCraft2 for the multiplayer, so there you go.
It reminds me (and relevantly so for a change) of the Blackbird spy plane.
Apparently it leaked fuel like a sieve when on the ground, because none of it fit together tightly. However when it got up to speed, the metal would heat up and expand, tightening up everything. This was apparently part of the actual design.
So yeah, go fast enough and you start running in to some pretty intense material engineering problems that need to get figured out, just to keep from vaporizing, never mind how weird things like that fly from a aerodynamical point of view.
I think a more obvious example of what is going on at high speeds is some of the work to get faster torpedoes in subs. From what I understand (which isn't much) hyper-cavitation creating a void at the front of the torpedo to enable it to cut through the water faster is the same principle as these ultra high speed air tests, where the air is removed from the nose of the test plane, reducing drag and friction, and most importantly heat, due to the later which would be beyond the material's ability to absorb and not deconstruct.
That and the reverence they all share towards Ensign Jimmy O'Toole the only red shirt to survive 5 away team trips. He would have a safety poster in the lounge with his face on it and a finger pointing with the text: WWJD?!
Meh. I thought it was obvious. We are polar bears that have adapted to hunting Humans by mimicking their behavior. Over time we have come to look just like them, unfortunately many have also become jerks as a result.
is about what we need. All traders need to be human, or at least Mentats. Anyone using a computer to do "intelligent" trading needs a lynch mob. With torches.
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
I am pretty sure sound from video games are a dead giveaway to your boss that your playing video games. Since most people are not allowed to play video games at work...
In which case you might need to start looking for a new job.
Sporadically every now and then I hear Pac-Man going on a few cubes away. lol.
Mute your sound before going to Google if your in an Office setting... Unless they are cool enough to let you play video games at work. My bosses are a bit sticky about that.
I hope they enjoy wasting money advertising to Mr. Guy Incognito, 123 Fake Street, Fakesville, USA and emailing tons of stuff to an temporary webmail address that only POP3 fwd email to another webmail account, until I decide to drop it and delete it whenever I like.
If you don't want to share your personal information, don't share it. I am pretty sure my "friends" know where I live and what my email address is anyway. And hey, if it gets so bad that you can't use it anymore to connect with people, then Facebook will learn about what happens to Myspace when a new, better, player comes to town. Enjoy your money while you can, and might I suggest investing in something else while you still can.
I am sure there will be no spying or monitoring, and that all privacy will be maintained. They certainly won't use that connection to infiltrate your computer to search for illegal files such as movies and music!
Though if they play the bond music every time you connect it might be worth it. That shit makes everything more exciting...
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nuke it from orbit, its the only way to be sure...
I think you are confusing settlement for awarded damages. Yes 1500$ would be a fair ruling if they went to court and lost, and were court ordered to pay 1500$ worth of damages. A settlement might be for 500-1000$ and to avoid court. All reasonable.
That is not happening. What is happening is to large Italian fellow in dark suit show up at your door and demand 1500$ in protection money otherwise "it would be a shame if we ruined your life financially"...
OK I may have made that up. But the basic premise is true, when you target and threaten a large mass of people with damages of several million dollars (not to mention lawyer and court fees), and say well if you pay us 1500$ this will all go away... then that is not a settlement. That is extortion. The media companies have turned the legal system into a baseball bat to beat and threaten people with, and all they had to do was pay some politicians to do it.
Copyright needs reform, as do the laws surrounding it. The problem is so do politics, and so long as they are accepting money from the media lobby, neither will actually happen.
The Core i5-655K and Core i7-875K have two and four cores, respectively, and they're priced at just $216 and $342. It appears that both will easily hit speeds in excess of 4GHz with air cooling.
I can buy a regular i5-750 quad core that will air OC to 3.6-3.8Ghz for about 215$ CND. So I can get a slightly faster dual core for the same price? yhippie.
So what is so special about these chips and why would I buy them? Anyway they don't seem all that special a deal. Unlocked multiplyer is neat, but the pricing VS performance I don't think makes any sense.
Same goes for the folks that buy a 200$ CPU and a 100$ cooler, then they could have just bought a 300$ CPU to begin with. Particulary when they mess with socket specs all the time making your previous cooling setup worthless.
Anyway if your doing it for fun whatever, it is. Just it doesn't make sense all the time. Getting as much out of your CPU just makes sense, but buying assuming OC is a bad idea, even with an unlocked multiplyer, there is nothing to say it will hit the 4+Ghz mark, and if you don't nothing you can do about it.
No I wasn't calling them anything.
Yes I do claim they are lying.
You do not understand English, Sentences, basic fundamental communication, and perhaps a lack of reasoning skills. Maybe you can't read, however you appear to be able to write, which is puzzling and distressing.
I said they must think their users are idiots for A) thinking that the elimination of LAN is for the benefit of the user, and B) as per the article thinking that they are better than other software companies and their limiting restrictive DRM, because they didn't specifically call it that.
Yet you will HAVE to authenticate Online to play.
Yet you will HAVE to use their service to play multiplayer.
I am just pointing out very obvious things that should be apparent to anyone with half a brain. They aren't as bad as UbiSoft, but they do have DRM. Which is why I coined "they must think their users are idiots"...
Considering I am arguing with an idiot that I guess agrees with Blizzard, then this not only proves my hypothesis but also affirms that perhaps Blizzard is correct in assuming that their users ARE idiots, as we seem to have living proof.
Nope. Warcraft 2 would be a sequel to Warcraft, just like Warcraft 3 would be a sequel to Warcraft 2...
See a trend? A pattern?
Being based on something and being the next game in a sequel are two different things.
If Blizzard actually finished "Starcraft: Ghost" then I wouldn't expect LAN play in that game. Because it is fundamentally a different game. Just like World of Warcraft is a fundamentally different game than Warcraft. It isn't even the same genre. One is a Real Time Strategy and the other is a MMORPG. I believe Ghost was supposed to be a FPS or something along those lines.
So apparently you are another idiot. If you have a legitimate argument, or even an argument that perhaps I don't agree with, but at least makes sense, then you won't get the anger. Smarmy idiots and their lackeys, I have anger aplenty.
Your an idiot.
If the game was called BlastWars, and it didn't have LAN I wouldn't say boo.
If your making a sequel and you take away a popular feature that was available in the first one, with the intent of doing so to prevent that type of play only because you want less pirating , then you have to be held to account for it. Your supposed to add features to preexisting products to encourage people to buy them, not take them away.
Blizzard is resting on its laurels of its reputation and that of StarCraft. They can and will get away with it, because they can. Doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
If BattleNet is done right, I don't see it as that big a deal. Considering Blizzard is behind it, and seem to be leveraging all their games with it, likely it will be well done. However it is worrisome. It is a single point of failure with no recourse.
Don't get me wrong its not as bad as UbiSoft's halfbaked idea about continuous online authentication (no idea how they even got that stupid idea through to production, it boggles my mind it is such a bad decision, both from a business and a software perspective got approved), however it isn't that large a leap to force online "activation", and then force users to use their service for all multiplayer. Sure you could play the single player and not use BattleNet, but most people are buying StarCraft2 for the multiplayer, so there you go.
Yes, do as I say not as I do.
Because the removal of LAN play had nothing to do with preventing piracy or limiting their users with restrictive DRM.
They really must think their users are idiots.
XP won't die until enterprise sized customers feel comfortable to upgrade to a new OS.
They are always late adopters anyway, you should see the archaic crap I am typing on right now. XP - Check. Office 2003 - check. IE6 - check. Etc...
I am wondering if I get a NEW computer in 2010 what it will be running. I would bet 100$ that it will still be XP.
I think Windows 7 is still too new for most large enterprise IT managers to feel comfortable to start switching everything over.
Wow... that actually might be a business model.
1) End all security updates for old OS
2) ???
3) PROFIT!!!
Invest in Apple?
It reminds me (and relevantly so for a change) of the Blackbird spy plane.
Apparently it leaked fuel like a sieve when on the ground, because none of it fit together tightly. However when it got up to speed, the metal would heat up and expand, tightening up everything. This was apparently part of the actual design.
So yeah, go fast enough and you start running in to some pretty intense material engineering problems that need to get figured out, just to keep from vaporizing, never mind how weird things like that fly from a aerodynamical point of view.
I think a more obvious example of what is going on at high speeds is some of the work to get faster torpedoes in subs. From what I understand (which isn't much) hyper-cavitation creating a void at the front of the torpedo to enable it to cut through the water faster is the same principle as these ultra high speed air tests, where the air is removed from the nose of the test plane, reducing drag and friction, and most importantly heat, due to the later which would be beyond the material's ability to absorb and not deconstruct.
That and the reverence they all share towards Ensign Jimmy O'Toole the only red shirt to survive 5 away team trips. He would have a safety poster in the lounge with his face on it and a finger pointing with the text: WWJD?!
Meh. I thought it was obvious. We are polar bears that have adapted to hunting Humans by mimicking their behavior. Over time we have come to look just like them, unfortunately many have also become jerks as a result.
is about what we need. All traders need to be human, or at least Mentats. Anyone using a computer to do "intelligent" trading needs a lynch mob. With torches.
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
Sell Sell Sell!
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
I remember playing so much Warcraft 2 in University that I had a few dreams of that.
We will solve this horrible situation by dumping shredded tires and golf balls into the ocean until the problem is solved!
"But perhaps...
I said until it was solved!
no idea. they are integrated. Mmmmm PC speaker...
"Sound" isn't NSFW, but video games are.
I am pretty sure sound from video games are a dead giveaway to your boss that your playing video games.
Since most people are not allowed to play video games at work...
In which case you might need to start looking for a new job.
Noticed it at work this morning.
Told a few people.
Poster should note that there is SOUND!
Sporadically every now and then I hear Pac-Man going on a few cubes away. lol.
Mute your sound before going to Google if your in an Office setting... Unless they are cool enough to let you play video games at work. My bosses are a bit sticky about that.
I hope they enjoy wasting money advertising to Mr. Guy Incognito, 123 Fake Street, Fakesville, USA and emailing tons of stuff to an temporary webmail address that only POP3 fwd email to another webmail account, until I decide to drop it and delete it whenever I like.
If you don't want to share your personal information, don't share it. I am pretty sure my "friends" know where I live and what my email address is anyway. And hey, if it gets so bad that you can't use it anymore to connect with people, then Facebook will learn about what happens to Myspace when a new, better, player comes to town. Enjoy your money while you can, and might I suggest investing in something else while you still can.
Combining Toyota's "Can't Stop!" technology, to solve Tesla's limited range problems is pure genius!
"Free" London Wifi eh?
I am sure there will be no spying or monitoring, and that all privacy will be maintained. They certainly won't use that connection to infiltrate your computer to search for illegal files such as movies and music!
Though if they play the bond music every time you connect it might be worth it. That shit makes everything more exciting...
Make up some fictional stats using whatever software your comfortable with. They won't know the difference.
Make the winner whichever company will give you a kickback or the cheapest that will give you a promotion.
PROFIT!!!
Sony is involved? No thanks I will take a pass.
Fool me once...
Considering it is an Islamic state I will assume porn is also banned as well.
Whats left on there? Just this: http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/ ?
Time to just turn the internet off and run a Pakistan LAN.