And MW2 still sold like crazy on the PC. Has been high Steam's Top 10 sales since its release, even during the holiday sale when most of steam's catalogue was discounted by huge amounts while MW2 stayed at $60.
What this all means of course is that EA will keep this up for all its future games too.
One thing I've been noticing is the lowered challenge of most FPS multi-platform releases I've played. Probably has to do with the difficulty of precise aiming using the analog stick, but single player enemies nowadays are way too easily dispatched with headshots using good old mouse and keyboard.
And really, overall the challenge of games in the last few years has plummetted. Now I'm no fan of truly hard games. Hell, I have a hard time beating more than a couple levels of Mega Man 2 without cheating! And yet, I've had little problem breezing through most of the big name games I've played recently. Some of them seem to be little more than interactive stories for all the challenge they offer, unless you set artificial limits for yourself (do not use death-walk in Prey.)
That's actually why I'm staying away from MMORPGs - I have a huge backlog of games that I want to have a chance of playing:)
Got Titan Quest Gold for $15 a couple years back and loved it. Have a bunch of characters who beat Normal, a few who beat Epic, and one who beat Legendary.
it may very well have been that the math teaching was so bad in that particular case that no teaching worked better than teaching math badly.
Heh, that reminds me how in the 5th grade the teacher told us that 1 m^2 has the same area as 100 cm^2. I spent 5 minutes trying to convince her otherwise, and finally had to draw her a picture, at which point she finally understood. And then asked me not to correct her in class.
So F=ma is only true if mass is constant with respect to time (So it doesn't work in cases of a rocket, airplane, top fuel dragster, etc)... That's easily seen from the derivation, but not trivial to see from dimensional analysis or the F=ma question itself.
Dimensional analysis? Seems pretty obvious to me from just looking at the equation that if 'm' changes, either 'F' or 'a' have to change as well. What's so hard to understand?
I have two eyes, but slight astigmatism, and Avatar 3D didn't work for me. Tried those Real3D glasses over my normal glasses, tried them without my normal glasses... The close up objects with "obvious" 3D just looked bad. Objects further away still not great. The only parts that really looked good were the holograms which are supposed to seem fake.
And I hated the effect of blurring objects you're not supposed to be focusing on.
Get with the program. In the post-911 world, we kill'em all and let God sort them out. If they were innocent, we just sped up their trip to Heaven, and they should thank us for it. Or are you some kind of un-american godless islamo-fascist terrorist fundamentalist?
While I agree that unskippable cut-scenes are an atrocious, there are many of us who actually [i]like[/i] stories in our game. Why do you think Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is widely considered to be better than its two sequels? It's not the gameplay!
Titan Quest was awesome, but I wouldn't call it a "dungeon crawl" since 90% of the action took place outside. The dungeons that it did have were mostly rather bland.
A single pirate who would honestly not buy the game if pirating was not possible (and how many of those types of pirates are there, really?) might not hurt anyone. A lot of pirates will just make many people, who don't even know what "DRM" is, think "hey, they got for free what I paid for! That's not fair! I'll pirate my games too!" Do you honestly think that won't hurt the bottom line?
Here's a purely hypothetical scenario since slashdotters like car analogies so much: A device is invented (or alien artifact or magic wand or whatever is discovered) which allows people to quickly and easily make an exact copy of any car they want for free, and everyone has unlimited access to it. You want an exact copy of a Benz or a Porsche or a Ferrari? You got it! People who cannot afford the real thing are ecstatic that they can finally have the cars of their dreams. Since no cars are actually disappearing off dealers' lots, this doesn't cost them or the manufacturers a thing, right? Now how long do you think they will stay in business?
They lose NOTHING, not even one cent, by me pirating it, so what reason is there not to? Because someone like you who defends DRM says that it's wrong?
How about because you're getting for free what other people are paying good money for? Is it fair to them?
So, in 1.5 million years we might possibly be threatened by some comets? Something tells me that unless we do something incredibly stupid in the next 1.5 million years, a lot of humanity isn't going to be on earth.
Chances are, we are going to do something incredible stupid and not survive to that point anyway.
And also, we'd have to colonize outside the solar system to be safe here. Mars would be just as threatened by the comets as Earth.
so that means that even if your thing can really scramble itself upon execution, if they have info on the versions that are being distributed online, those can be blocked
Until the infected machines start distributing their already-scrambled executables to others?
Not really. Flying, when done properly will be -a lot- more safe than driving. With flying, unlike driving you go not just left and right but also up and down. Mix this with the fact that there are no roads (meaning to get to the same place two people can easily take routes miles apart) and you have the ability to reduce, eliminate traffic problems that exist in traditional traffic.
Ah yes, that's why air traffic controllers have such cushy, relaxing jobs.
That might work if the application is infected by (known) malware. What if the application is itself the trojan, perhaps one that activates in the future so no one would have reported it yet? Unless someone has access to the source code and the time and inclination to look through it, how do you know it's safe?
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And MW2 still sold like crazy on the PC. Has been high Steam's Top 10 sales since its release, even during the holiday sale when most of steam's catalogue was discounted by huge amounts while MW2 stayed at $60.
What this all means of course is that EA will keep this up for all its future games too.
One thing I've been noticing is the lowered challenge of most FPS multi-platform releases I've played. Probably has to do with the difficulty of precise aiming using the analog stick, but single player enemies nowadays are way too easily dispatched with headshots using good old mouse and keyboard.
And really, overall the challenge of games in the last few years has plummetted. Now I'm no fan of truly hard games. Hell, I have a hard time beating more than a couple levels of Mega Man 2 without cheating! And yet, I've had little problem breezing through most of the big name games I've played recently. Some of them seem to be little more than interactive stories for all the challenge they offer, unless you set artificial limits for yourself (do not use death-walk in Prey.)
That's actually why I'm staying away from MMORPGs - I have a huge backlog of games that I want to have a chance of playing :)
Got Titan Quest Gold for $15 a couple years back and loved it. Have a bunch of characters who beat Normal, a few who beat Epic, and one who beat Legendary.
it may very well have been that the math teaching was so bad in that particular case that no teaching worked better than teaching math badly.
Heh, that reminds me how in the 5th grade the teacher told us that 1 m^2 has the same area as 100 cm^2. I spent 5 minutes trying to convince her otherwise, and finally had to draw her a picture, at which point she finally understood. And then asked me not to correct her in class.
I thought Securom was only supposed to care if you're running the blacklisted program at the same time as the game, not just have it installed?
Combofix will also remove most of these, and usually with "Security Center" or "XP AV 2010" we give up and run Combofix immediately.
I hadn't heard of combofix before, so I googled it.
From combofix.net:
Known issues
* ComboFix is made to only run on 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.
* Some antivirus software may detect ComboFix as malicious; for example it uses NirCmd, which is considered as a backdoor by many antivirus software.
* ComboFix may disrupt internet connectivity.The majority of times only a simple fix is required.
* ComboFix may attempt deletion all files from the system drive on systems infected with a rootkit.
That last one might give me pause....
A browser is an application, like any other. Should an OS have a list of all web browsers and treat them differently from every other program?
Sure, just like highway billboards and road-side bombs are really similar, when you think about it.
How on Earth (and the seven circles of teh intarwebs, for that matter) do they adequately verify that these "girls" are actually human females?!!!!
You're way too picky. I'd be just fine with Blood Elf females, or Romulan Females, or Na'vi females...
An RPG style game is typically designed so nobody ever dies.
Just gotta enforce Hardcore/Ironman mode.
So F=ma is only true if mass is constant with respect to time (So it doesn't work in cases of a rocket, airplane, top fuel dragster, etc)... That's easily seen from the derivation, but not trivial to see from dimensional analysis or the F=ma question itself.
Dimensional analysis? Seems pretty obvious to me from just looking at the equation that if 'm' changes, either 'F' or 'a' have to change as well. What's so hard to understand?
Hey, in the Real Game, my Level 80 Warlock is rather popular with the Blood Elf hotties....
I have two eyes, but slight astigmatism, and Avatar 3D didn't work for me. Tried those Real3D glasses over my normal glasses, tried them without my normal glasses... The close up objects with "obvious" 3D just looked bad. Objects further away still not great. The only parts that really looked good were the holograms which are supposed to seem fake.
And I hated the effect of blurring objects you're not supposed to be focusing on.
I think I'll stick to plain old 2D from now on.
Get with the program. In the post-911 world, we kill'em all and let God sort them out. If they were innocent, we just sped up their trip to Heaven, and they should thank us for it. Or are you some kind of un-american godless islamo-fascist terrorist fundamentalist?
While I agree that unskippable cut-scenes are an atrocious, there are many of us who actually [i]like[/i] stories in our game. Why do you think Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is widely considered to be better than its two sequels? It's not the gameplay!
And in all its years of existence, how many times has the NAACP had a white President / CEO?
Titan Quest was awesome, but I wouldn't call it a "dungeon crawl" since 90% of the action took place outside. The dungeons that it did have were mostly rather bland.
A single pirate who would honestly not buy the game if pirating was not possible (and how many of those types of pirates are there, really?) might not hurt anyone. A lot of pirates will just make many people, who don't even know what "DRM" is, think "hey, they got for free what I paid for! That's not fair! I'll pirate my games too!" Do you honestly think that won't hurt the bottom line?
Here's a purely hypothetical scenario since slashdotters like car analogies so much: A device is invented (or alien artifact or magic wand or whatever is discovered) which allows people to quickly and easily make an exact copy of any car they want for free, and everyone has unlimited access to it. You want an exact copy of a Benz or a Porsche or a Ferrari? You got it! People who cannot afford the real thing are ecstatic that they can finally have the cars of their dreams. Since no cars are actually disappearing off dealers' lots, this doesn't cost them or the manufacturers a thing, right? Now how long do you think they will stay in business?
They lose NOTHING, not even one cent, by me pirating it, so what reason is there not to? Because someone like you who defends DRM says that it's wrong?
How about because you're getting for free what other people are paying good money for? Is it fair to them?
I just wait a few years for the GOTY edition to be on sale for $20.
Still waiting for Fallout 3.
So, in 1.5 million years we might possibly be threatened by some comets? Something tells me that unless we do something incredibly stupid in the next 1.5 million years, a lot of humanity isn't going to be on earth.
Chances are, we are going to do something incredible stupid and not survive to that point anyway.
And also, we'd have to colonize outside the solar system to be safe here. Mars would be just as threatened by the comets as Earth.
so that means that even if your thing can really scramble itself upon execution, if they have info on the versions that are being distributed online, those can be blocked
Until the infected machines start distributing their already-scrambled executables to others?
Here in the states we use the simple dots or feathers qualifier to determine which kind of indian it is.
I've never heard that myself. When there's a chance of confusion, people just say "Native American."
Not really. Flying, when done properly will be -a lot- more safe than driving. With flying, unlike driving you go not just left and right but also up and down. Mix this with the fact that there are no roads (meaning to get to the same place two people can easily take routes miles apart) and you have the ability to reduce, eliminate traffic problems that exist in traditional traffic.
Ah yes, that's why air traffic controllers have such cushy, relaxing jobs.
That might work if the application is infected by (known) malware. What if the application is itself the trojan, perhaps one that activates in the future so no one would have reported it yet? Unless someone has access to the source code and the time and inclination to look through it, how do you know it's safe?