Trucker #1: You got chocolate in my peanutbutter! Trucker #2: You got peanutbutter in my chocolate! Police Officer: Officer Reeses here. What seems to be the problem?
Being in PC repair I can attest that the latest DRM can be worse than most viruses. If you get Starforce or SecuROM mixed together, or either of those with any other like SafeDisc, well lets just say I hope you look back on the days of unstable Win9x fondly, because you will be getting a taste of those times. I can't even count the number of DVD drives of customers I had to throw away because Starforce or SecuROM decided they were "dirty evil filthy pirates" for actually having a burner and threw it into PIO mode and burned their drive smooth up.
Considering how many games use SecuROM, and that SafeDisc is actually part of the Windows XP installation, how do gamers have any optical drives left?
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When is the last time you saw a major release that didn't get glowing reviews from pretty much every site out there (sites who are also heavily supported with advertising $ from the very companies whose games they're reviewing)?
Security researchers have identified the attacks against Google to be largely from the Chinese government, as were the politically motivated attacks against the Dala Lama and other Tibetan exiles.
When will you sheeple realize that GOOGLE HACKED ITSELF. I've seen pictures of those google accounts, and this was obviously done by controlled hacking, not some attack from the outside. How else do you explain the compromise of Account 7???
This laws isn't about rendering assistance. It's about calling for help. No one expects you to break up a gang rape by yourself. But is walking away out of sight and dialing 911 too much?
Or Heroes, where a few drops of Claire's blood gives temporary regeneration powers to the receiver. Something Claire apparently forgot about in the most recent episode....
Almost every big time publisher seems to be using SecuROM nowadays. I was rather surprised last week to see a SecuROM error message when attempting to launch a Sam&Max Season 1 episode. Guess it thought the Windows defragmentor was emulation software....
Maybe this is a good thing, though. Someone like Blizzard doing this would have people grumbling and moaning and everyone would still put up with it because they need their WoW or Diablo 3 or Starcraft 2
You had to pick an MMO and two games in which the single player campaigns will be mere appetizers for online for your example of "putting up with required internet connections"?
Seriously, even Steam, for all its faults, is way better than this nonsense. Guess I'll be staying away from new Ubisoft titles from now on (even when they're $5 on Steam sales.)
If you play old games, you owe it to yourself to play them on a CRT at their native resolution, without the blurring/smudging that LCDs create when scaling up.
Different shows have on TV have different number of commercials too. I remember Fringe having only 60-90 second commercial breaks. How can Nielsen have ratings for Fringe then, compared to American Idle etc?
Heh, reminds me of the short story "Q.U.R." by Anthony Boucher. Humanoid robots becoming depressed and breaking down because they were only used for narrow, repetitive job functions.
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It was the first FPS to do real 3D
Nope, it wasn't. Descent and Terminator: Future Shock both came earlier. Probably some other stuff too.
I'll grant you that GLQuake was most likely the first FPS to do accelerated 3D.
Trucker #1: You got chocolate in my peanutbutter!
Trucker #2: You got peanutbutter in my chocolate!
Police Officer: Officer Reeses here. What seems to be the problem?
Only if the malware directly caused loss of life, or raped some kids or something, would I even consider such a punishment fair.
No, messing up your PC, making your admin job harder, or even stealing your identity and buying a mansion in your name should not be a capital crime.
You don't have to answer. Of course, then they might turn the life support off, so not without its advantages...
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When measuring distance in light years, the shortest path will always between two points(1)
Isn't the shortest distance always "between two points", regardless of the units of measurement?
That's nonsense. If the servers go down, I can still play whatever is currently installed that is non-multiplayer.
May I direct your attention here and here
Being in PC repair I can attest that the latest DRM can be worse than most viruses. If you get Starforce or SecuROM mixed together, or either of those with any other like SafeDisc, well lets just say I hope you look back on the days of unstable Win9x fondly, because you will be getting a taste of those times. I can't even count the number of DVD drives of customers I had to throw away because Starforce or SecuROM decided they were "dirty evil filthy pirates" for actually having a burner and threw it into PIO mode and burned their drive smooth up.
Considering how many games use SecuROM, and that SafeDisc is actually part of the Windows XP installation, how do gamers have any optical drives left?
When is the last time you saw a major release that didn't get glowing reviews from pretty much every site out there (sites who are also heavily supported with advertising $ from the very companies whose games they're reviewing)?
Kane and Lynch?
Security researchers have identified the attacks against Google to be largely from the Chinese government, as were the politically motivated attacks against the Dala Lama and other Tibetan exiles.
When will you sheeple realize that GOOGLE HACKED ITSELF. I've seen pictures of those google accounts, and this was obviously done by controlled hacking, not some attack from the outside. How else do you explain the compromise of Account 7???
This laws isn't about rendering assistance. It's about calling for help. No one expects you to break up a gang rape by yourself. But is walking away out of sight and dialing 911 too much?
Or Heroes, where a few drops of Claire's blood gives temporary regeneration powers to the receiver. Something Claire apparently forgot about in the most recent episode....
You'd also need more mass in your computer than exists in the universe, observable or otherwise.
Um, why? All you need is a decent compression algorithm.
If you're putting all your games in Steam's basket, be very very careful.
Almost every big time publisher seems to be using SecuROM nowadays. I was rather surprised last week to see a SecuROM error message when attempting to launch a Sam&Max Season 1 episode. Guess it thought the Windows defragmentor was emulation software....
Maybe this is a good thing, though. Someone like Blizzard doing this would have people grumbling and moaning and everyone would still put up with it because they need their WoW or Diablo 3 or Starcraft 2
You had to pick an MMO and two games in which the single player campaigns will be mere appetizers for online for your example of "putting up with required internet connections"?
Seriously, even Steam, for all its faults, is way better than this nonsense. Guess I'll be staying away from new Ubisoft titles from now on (even when they're $5 on Steam sales.)
Did anyone check if the official Goolebar Firefox extension has the same "bug"?
First crack down on prison rape, then crack down on "Fun."
If you play old games, you owe it to yourself to play them on a CRT at their native resolution, without the blurring/smudging that LCDs create when scaling up.
Different shows have on TV have different number of commercials too. I remember Fringe having only 60-90 second commercial breaks. How can Nielsen have ratings for Fringe then, compared to American Idle etc?
Great. Yet they still hold all your games hostage if you're having payment issues (and potentially do anything they don't like.) Also their regular updates can break steam for you.
How about the first beating off by police caught on video?
We obviously need to create faster slime molds.
To complete the triangle, the justice department must use WHOIS privacy to protect itself from us.
Heh, reminds me of the short story "Q.U.R." by Anthony Boucher. Humanoid robots becoming depressed and breaking down because they were only used for narrow, repetitive job functions.