Besides the fact that you're completely off topic (unless I missed a huge topic shift due to my filtering?) you've just described common courtesy, manners, and human decency -- not religion.
Windows won't magically start slowing down after time, it's all the crap that is installed (and/or uninstalled) over and over again.
Install windows. Set your pagefile to the size you want it (max and min the same or put the whole thing on a separate drive to avoid fragmentation). Install the programs you want. Patch everything. Defrag the whole thing (just to be sure) Make a drive image you can keep for emergencies. Then use it. (Log in as a limited user so that others don't install crap either.)
If you insist on installing loads of programs "just cus" then don't expect it to run perfectly forever. (But hey, at least you'll have a drive image you can quickly restore to.)
None. If Valve goes under, you go download the hacked version (which has I believe been upheld in court in those circumstances) so that you can play the version you bought.
On the other hand, what are you going to do 5 years from now when the new hardware on your computer won't play nice with the outdated copy "protection"?
I'm more willing to trust something that can be updated.
Steam does not bind anything to the machine. It binds to the account.
I routinely play my steam games on 3 different computers without problem. Just have to login when I want to play.
By contrast, I've had many legitimately purchased games refuse to run due to the copy "protection" schemes that are now included. If I'm going to be stuck with some sort of "protection" scheme, I'd rather it be one that: -doesn't require me to swap CDs in and out -allows me to install on any machine with net access that I happen to be at (even if I didn't bring the CD)
Adding to the list of stupid Sony things -- THE electrical giant Sony has been accused of price-fixing in an attempt to curb internet bargains and send online prices soaring, it emerged yesterday.
The firm is among up to five leading manufacturers which demand higher prices from internet retailers than they do from high street stores.
Why would you get a refund for the time you already spent playing? You played that time and apparently enjoyed it since you payed money to do so. That or you have a very hard time understanding the results of your actions.
If I want to play a "serious" game (meaning something that will only appeal to a "Gamer" (with capital G) then I play on the PC.
However, if I want my non-Gamer friends to play a game with me, the Gamecube is far and away the best choice. And that seems to be the direction Nintendo is heading. Since there are a LOT more NON-Gamers then there are Gamers it seems that Nintendo has a completely different (better?) vision of the future of games.
Actually, game copy protections are once again getting seriously intrusive.
I've purchased several games that have refused to run without a NOCD patch due to who-knows-why.
Yeah, way to treat your paying customers.
Sadly, all I can do is send a complaint to the company because copy protections aren't exactly printed on the packaging, and stores don't take returns.
Their mountain of evidence has to be big and strong enough to topple my mound of evidence.
No, their evidence just has to be verifiable. One fact is enough to disprove a theory. You only need a mountain of evidence to demonstrate that a theory appears to be true.
Now, it's quite possible to have a theory or model that is USEFUL because it fits MOST circumstances -- we use those all the time in science. But eventually you have to realize that it is only that -- useful, not law.
"...it is impossible to predict how a singularity will affect objects in its causal future." - NCSA Cyberia Glossary What's New?!
We recently released an extensive Technical Report describing the current state of the Singularity Project in great detail. Overview
Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques and tools for specifying and verifying program behavior.
Advances in languages, compilers, and tools open the possibility of significantly improving software. For example, Singularity uses type-safe languages and an abstract instruction set to enable what we call Software Isolated Processes (SIPs). SIPs provide the strong isolation guarantees of OS processes (isolated object space, separate GCs, separate runtimes) without the overhead of hardware-enforced protection domains. In the current Singularity prototype SIPs are extremely cheap; they run in ring 0 in the kernel's address space.
Singularity uses these advances to build more reliable systems and applications. For example, because SIPs are so cheap to create and enforce, Singularity runs each program, device driver, or system extension in its own SIP. SIPs are not allowed to share memory or modify their own code. As a result, we can make strong reliability guarantees about the code running in a SIP. We can verify much broader properties about a SIP at compile or install time than can be done for code running in traditional OS processes. Boarder application of static verification is critical to predicting system behavior and providing users with strong guarantees about reliability.
I use drag and drop a lot when using Mac OS X simply because it works so well. Dragging files to the trash, dragging files to applications to open them, dragging images off web pages to save them etc..
Just because Windows (and therefore Linux, as sadly the linux desktops have heavily copied windows as opposed to OS X) can't do drag and drop effectively
Odd, every one of the examples you mentioned works in MY Windows. Have you screwed yours up somehow or are you using some bizarre version? Perhaps you meant to bring up some of the actual problems with windows drag and drop (there are one or two, but it's hardly "broken")?
The same way programmers, artists, etc break into the game industry may very well work for him. Find a high quality mod and offer to write original music for them.
Do so.
Then he can point people to the mod and say "I sacored that".
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Search for a utility called -- no joke -- "gspot" (for windows). It will tell you the codecs required for most .avi files.
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Note the instructions to avoid commercially produced tinfoil beanies!
320X240 size IIRC.
If that resolution isn't exact, it's around that size. Works for cartoons, a bit too small to really enjoy other shows on your TV.
Besides the fact that you're completely off topic (unless I missed a huge topic shift due to my filtering?) you've just described common courtesy, manners, and human decency -- not religion.
I've read that a select few developers have some kind of dev kit. No, I don't have details and it was a second hand source.
Dunno about you, but I'm wishing I had bought one to sell on ebay. =(
Buy decent hardware with good drivers and stop installing crap software. (Including spyware.)
Windows won't magically start slowing down after time, it's all the crap that is installed (and/or uninstalled) over and over again.
Install windows.
Set your pagefile to the size you want it (max and min the same or put the whole thing on a separate drive to avoid fragmentation).
Install the programs you want.
Patch everything.
Defrag the whole thing (just to be sure)
Make a drive image you can keep for emergencies.
Then use it. (Log in as a limited user so that others don't install crap either.)
If you insist on installing loads of programs "just cus" then don't expect it to run perfectly forever. (But hey, at least you'll have a drive image you can quickly restore to.)
You want to play two copies of the game at once, you buy two copies.
That's the license for all software unless specifically granted otherwise.
Just because you've been able to cheat the system in the past doesn't mean it's your right.
None. If Valve goes under, you go download the hacked version (which has I believe been upheld in court in those circumstances) so that you can play the version you bought.
On the other hand, what are you going to do 5 years from now when the new hardware on your computer won't play nice with the outdated copy "protection"?
I'm more willing to trust something that can be updated.
Steam does not bind anything to the machine. It binds to the account.
I routinely play my steam games on 3 different computers without problem. Just have to login when I want to play.
By contrast, I've had many legitimately purchased games refuse to run due to the copy "protection" schemes that are now included. If I'm going to be stuck with some sort of "protection" scheme, I'd rather it be one that:
-doesn't require me to swap CDs in and out
-allows me to install on any machine with net access that I happen to be at (even if I didn't bring the CD)
Adding to the list of stupid Sony things --
THE electrical giant Sony has been accused of price-fixing in an attempt to curb internet bargains and send online prices soaring, it emerged yesterday.
The firm is among up to five leading manufacturers which demand higher prices from internet retailers than they do from high street stores.
from:
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=2241992005
Ugh. Bad, bad Sony!
P2P = Peer to Peer, not Client to Server.
What if I have autoplay turned off and I "abuse" the "CD" by treating it as a normal CD? The EULA never shows up and so I never agree to it.
What about the person who uses a "normal" CD player? They certainly aren't going to be reading anything.
(Unless of course this is one of those "by opening this package you agree to the EULA inside" things which I doubt could be enforced.)
INTERESTING?
Funny at best.
Why would you get a refund for the time you already spent playing? You played that time and apparently enjoyed it since you payed money to do so. That or you have a very hard time understanding the results of your actions.
I bought my gamecube to go alongside my PC.
If I want to play a "serious" game (meaning something that will only appeal to a "Gamer" (with capital G) then I play on the PC.
However, if I want my non-Gamer friends to play a game with me, the Gamecube is far and away the best choice. And that seems to be the direction Nintendo is heading. Since there are a LOT more NON-Gamers then there are Gamers it seems that Nintendo has a completely different (better?) vision of the future of games.
Actually, game copy protections are once again getting seriously intrusive.
I've purchased several games that have refused to run without a NOCD patch due to who-knows-why.
Yeah, way to treat your paying customers.
Sadly, all I can do is send a complaint to the company because copy protections aren't exactly printed on the packaging, and stores don't take returns.
"Doom III is an FPS game" no, it's a FPS game. Write it out 100 times in detention, boy!
Actually, a/an is determined by the sound of the following word.
In this case, it's eff pee ess, not "fwps". Therefore, an FPS is correct.
I own an AMD 64 3500. 1 GB RAM. evga 6800GT (256).
;) Sometimes gameplay really IS king.
I spend most of my online game time playing Natural Selection (a HALFLIFE 1 MOD!).
There's no reason you can't continue playing old games on a new computer.
Of course, I do play a lot of other single player games (FEAR, Quake4, Far Cry, HL2, etc etc).
I can take or leave it, because I'm not addicted at all.
"I'm not addicted. I've quit 45 times already -- it's easy!"
Their mountain of evidence has to be big and strong enough to topple my mound of evidence.
No, their evidence just has to be verifiable. One fact is enough to disprove a theory. You only need a mountain of evidence to demonstrate that a theory appears to be true.
Now, it's quite possible to have a theory or model that is USEFUL because it fits MOST circumstances -- we use those all the time in science. But eventually you have to realize that it is only that -- useful, not law.
The main bits of the story0 2
Also, there is a link to this video
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=683
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"...it is impossible to predict how a singularity will affect objects in its causal future." - NCSA Cyberia Glossary
What's New?!
We recently released an extensive Technical Report describing the current state of the Singularity Project in great detail.
Overview
Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques and tools for specifying and verifying program behavior.
Advances in languages, compilers, and tools open the possibility of significantly improving software. For example, Singularity uses type-safe languages and an abstract instruction set to enable what we call Software Isolated Processes (SIPs). SIPs provide the strong isolation guarantees of OS processes (isolated object space, separate GCs, separate runtimes) without the overhead of hardware-enforced protection domains. In the current Singularity prototype SIPs are extremely cheap; they run in ring 0 in the kernel's address space.
Singularity uses these advances to build more reliable systems and applications. For example, because SIPs are so cheap to create and enforce, Singularity runs each program, device driver, or system extension in its own SIP. SIPs are not allowed to share memory or modify their own code. As a result, we can make strong reliability guarantees about the code running in a SIP. We can verify much broader properties about a SIP at compile or install time than can be done for code running in traditional OS processes. Boarder application of static verification is critical to predicting system behavior and providing users with strong guarantees about reliability.
I use drag and drop a lot when using Mac OS X simply because it works so well. Dragging files to the trash, dragging files to applications to open them, dragging images off web pages to save them etc..
Just because Windows (and therefore Linux, as sadly the linux desktops have heavily copied windows as opposed to OS X) can't do drag and drop effectively
Odd, every one of the examples you mentioned works in MY Windows. Have you screwed yours up somehow or are you using some bizarre version? Perhaps you meant to bring up some of the actual problems with windows drag and drop (there are one or two, but it's hardly "broken")?
Lots of people have sort of ... well, tried to point out the disparity there.
Go check out the cost of the latest LIVE Broadway show.
I seem to remember that Phantom of the Opera tickets started around $70 or so when they came through here.
Meanwhile, I saw Norah Jones for about $30.
The same way programmers, artists, etc break into the game industry may very well work for him. Find a high quality mod and offer to write original music for them.
Do so.
Then he can point people to the mod and say "I sacored that".