I think they are preloading almost all of the game files (sounds, textures, maps) just not the engine needed to play it... which would make sense as it is the smallest part of the entire game, can be altered/updated without needing to change any of the preloaded stuff, and can be pushed out rather quickly after any changes are made/is ready for release.
"Somehow, I think Vivendi isn't terribly concerned."
Vivendi isn't concerned about losing one of if not THE biggest earners of their whole software line?
"Lose a developer who has slipped numerous deadlines and is literally years behind schedule on the release of their one project?"
Didn't they announce plans for HL2 in 2002? plus this isn't one project as in one game... this is a whole engine which will license many other games and provide much additional revenue much like HL1 did... I don't think I am wrong when I say Sierra exisits because of HL1.
great team AI my ass, shoot one of the people and the others would all run to the spot where he died... how is that AI? no cover fire, no flanking progression... just rush to the spot.
Then they would run in, one at a time and die the same exact death... how about a flash bang then rush? or after 3 of your buddies have died once they entered a room, toss a HE grenade in? there was no team AI.. just groups of people shooting in unision...
Seriously, if you turn down the graphics the game is at best mediocre... Doom3 is worse tho, turn down the graphics and it is mudane and predictable... and at least with Farcry the weapons actually did damage, 3 shotgun blasts to kill an imp any were more then 2 ft away? Plasma gun was no better...
sheesh...
"I thank goodnesss I've lived the era where I've been able to accumulate my music on CD's. At least I'll live out my years being able to listen to those"
Unfortunately it has been shown that CDs don't last as long as they were first thought to...
i think it is under 10 years before natural oxidation starts to eat away the aluminum in between the plastic platters (what the music is stored on).
So effectively with the DMCA law you can't back up your current collection and eventually will have to repurchase under some new format/media (since DMCA makes backups "illegal")
all of them built from scratch, all of them with more memory and better video card than offered by a dell comparable product... save money on the CPU, get the same performance, buy more ram and better video card maybe even a bigger HD...
"But you will have a very hard time finding any article reporting that retail sales of PCs are steadily decreasing as a percentage of overall PC sales. The easy way to figure this out is look at Dell. Each quarter their market share increases."
market share of what? Direct sales? (you say yes) since this is the only market they are in it has no correlation to retail sales of PCs and their decline.
My neighboor spent 900 on a brand new dell dimension 2400, when i showed him my ssytem (AMD inside) that costed 750 dollars and blew his system away in terms of performance and upgradability (the dimension doesnt even have an agp slot) he immediately asked me to sell his Dell on ebay and help him build a new computer using AMD...
i think most people just don't know enough about the nuts and bolts of computer hardware to make an informed decision with their dollars.. they see dell or maybe gateway/compaq and buy the best they can afford...
as long as you keep your writing to yourself it will remain yours, as soon as you let another person read it, it becomes a part of them, their personality and their way of thinking because of the influence of your ideas.
Now this person who read your work may create a work of his own that is based or encompasses your ideas, is this stealing? no, becuase you can't own thoughts, you can keep them to yourself but that's as close as your gonna get to "ownership".
I thought the artists sign over the IP rights to the corporations who produce (sell) their music... so stronger IP rights wouldn't help the musician at all, just the corporation..
I hate, i mean i HATE the fact of having to pay 10+ dollars for the movie and then having to watch their ads and anti-piracy crap... but for popular movies who can get a good seat unless you get there early, esp if you go with your wife or children (getting seats together...)
wow, you have a job, money and food in your stomach.. as much as you like to whine.. you're not poor.
Try not being able to find a job, try not having food for yourself and your kids... will you just let your children starve because of your feelings of moral superiority?
I've lived in the hood, i've been homeless too.. I guess there are two things you can take away from the experience, that is is nice to see other people who care enough about others to try and help and then do the same when you are able to, or be a bitter asshole... I think we both know which one you took.
Those splash screens for the most part can just be deleted, they are in a folder called \movies usually in the installation folder... man i hate those things...
Well obviously you don't know what you are talking about when it comes to welfare and you aren't "poor" although you like to say you are so you can feel good about your selfishness.
I have been on welfare, known numerous people on welfare and seen what the system does for people.
Welfare helps children most of all.. and if you had ever been on welfare you would know that it does not supply loads of cash to spend on your every hearts desire.. I seem to remember getting 600 a month with a wife AND a child and about 200 in food stamps, with rent being 650 in itself it was always a challenge to make ends meet.
This was no life to admire and I wouldn't wish it on anyone... but it did help us get by in lean times... now i am fully employed and so is my wife.. we make good money and I happily pay into a system that would help others who hit hard times like it helped me when i needed it.
I am neither black or unmotivated but i was poor, will i vote for someone who supports welfare... you bet your ass i will... they helped me when republicans like yourself could have given a damn but didn't.
I don't know what reality you live in but everyone I knew who was on welfare barely could make ends meet let alone drive fancy cars... but maybe the bullshit you spew helps you sleep at night so whatever...
And about you being poor, do you go hungry? when was the last time you didn't have enough money to eat? or a place to sleep? or clean water, or able to clean yourself and clothes regularly?
Only in america could you have it so good that someone who has a roof over their heads, a full belly every night and clothes on their back that are less than 6 months old would complain that they are "poor".
Slashdot Mirror
"Sucks when that one dead pixel is always on, and is red, or green, and in the middle of the display."
Can't you just poke the offending pixel with a needle or somthing to make it turn "off"?
although that might void the overall warranty, I think a single always lit pixel would drive me insane...
Kind of like that fly that lands on your TV or the smidgen of dust that makes your eye pop straight to it while watching a movie.
"World of Warcraft -- heck ALL the Blizzard games"
I thought Blizzard was a game developer AND the publisher of all blizzrd games?
I didn't know about Sierra being bought out by Vivendi tho... good stuff.
I think they are preloading almost all of the game files (sounds, textures, maps) just not the engine needed to play it... which would make sense as it is the smallest part of the entire game, can be altered/updated without needing to change any of the preloaded stuff, and can be pushed out rather quickly after any changes are made/is ready for release.
plus you can use steam now without an internet connection to play lan games... should be the same for single player...
"Somehow, I think Vivendi isn't terribly concerned."
Vivendi isn't concerned about losing one of if not THE biggest earners of their whole software line?
"Lose a developer who has slipped numerous deadlines and is literally years behind schedule on the release of their one project?"
Didn't they announce plans for HL2 in 2002? plus this isn't one project as in one game... this is a whole engine which will license many other games and provide much additional revenue much like HL1 did... I don't think I am wrong when I say Sierra exisits because of HL1.
great team AI my ass, shoot one of the people and the others would all run to the spot where he died... how is that AI? no cover fire, no flanking progression... just rush to the spot.
Then they would run in, one at a time and die the same exact death... how about a flash bang then rush? or after 3 of your buddies have died once they entered a room, toss a HE grenade in? there was no team AI.. just groups of people shooting in unision...
Seriously, if you turn down the graphics the game is at best mediocre... Doom3 is worse tho, turn down the graphics and it is mudane and predictable... and at least with Farcry the weapons actually did damage, 3 shotgun blasts to kill an imp any were more then 2 ft away? Plasma gun was no better...
sheesh...
i guess that's what i get for using someone else' analogy ;)
what i meant is that if you have the key (dvd player) and the lock (dvd media), where is the security?
Is that what you mean by alice and neo?
"And second whats to prevent us from using an older version of windows to rip the cds to mp3.."
;)
:-/
not being able to use windows update to fix the 15,000 bugs in older versions to make them even halfway stable
It's what forced me to switch to XP
"I thank goodnesss I've lived the era where I've been able to accumulate my music on CD's. At least I'll live out my years being able to listen to those"
Unfortunately it has been shown that CDs don't last as long as they were first thought to...
i think it is under 10 years before natural oxidation starts to eat away the aluminum in between the plastic platters (what the music is stored on).
So effectively with the DMCA law you can't back up your current collection and eventually will have to repurchase under some new format/media (since DMCA makes backups "illegal")
"Also, what ever happened to the 'fair use' clause that legally allows me to make a copy of my CD? "
It was legally denied to you when the DMCA law passed.
I have 5 home computers and guess what they run ;)
all of them built from scratch, all of them with more memory and better video card than offered by a dell comparable product... save money on the CPU, get the same performance, buy more ram and better video card maybe even a bigger HD...
woot... competition is a good thing.
"Web sales are not retailers. Direct sales is manufacturers selling directly to the end user."
In the context of AMD selling more processors than intel in "retail" sales then web sites certainly do count.
"But you will have a very hard time finding any article reporting that retail sales of PCs are steadily decreasing as a percentage of overall PC sales. The easy way to figure this out is look at Dell. Each quarter their market share increases."
market share of what? Direct sales? (you say yes) since this is the only market they are in it has no correlation to retail sales of PCs and their decline.
My neighboor spent 900 on a brand new dell dimension 2400, when i showed him my ssytem (AMD inside) that costed 750 dollars and blew his system away in terms of performance and upgradability (the dimension doesnt even have an agp slot) he immediately asked me to sell his Dell on ebay and help him build a new computer using AMD...
i think most people just don't know enough about the nuts and bolts of computer hardware to make an informed decision with their dollars.. they see dell or maybe gateway/compaq and buy the best they can afford...
ugh, my nice post got all fuxored...
"Neo and Alice are the same person."
I think the reason that makes current copy protection impossible is because you are Bob Neo AND Alice.
you have the DVD (Bob) the DVD reader (Alice) and you are NEO...
nd Alice are the same person, but Bob Neo and Alice are all the same person...
you have the DVD (Bob) the dvd reader (Alice) and you are NEO...
as long as you keep your writing to yourself it will remain yours, as soon as you let another person read it, it becomes a part of them, their personality and their way of thinking because of the influence of your ideas.
Now this person who read your work may create a work of his own that is based or encompasses your ideas, is this stealing? no, becuase you can't own thoughts, you can keep them to yourself but that's as close as your gonna get to "ownership".
I thought the artists sign over the IP rights to the corporations who produce (sell) their music... so stronger IP rights wouldn't help the musician at all, just the corporation..
"(between consenting adult humans)."
You pedo/bestialphobe!!
"You see, assault is a crime. Saying something another does not like is not a crime."
Actually assault is the act of threatening harm, you don't have to physically touch the person...
Now Battery, that is when you touch someone, yes any form of contact...
I hate, i mean i HATE the fact of having to pay 10+ dollars for the movie and then having to watch their ads and anti-piracy crap... but for popular movies who can get a good seat unless you get there early, esp if you go with your wife or children (getting seats together...)
"In order to put the genie back in the bottle, the government would have to harm everyone, even the most scrupulous of consumers"
this sounds just like the copy protection found on Doom3, Farcry, Painkiller recently.
Why are the people who actually understand what is going on, always in the minority?
wow, you have a job, money and food in your stomach.. as much as you like to whine.. you're not poor.
Try not being able to find a job, try not having food for yourself and your kids... will you just let your children starve because of your feelings of moral superiority?
I've lived in the hood, i've been homeless too.. I guess there are two things you can take away from the experience, that is is nice to see other people who care enough about others to try and help and then do the same when you are able to, or be a bitter asshole... I think we both know which one you took.
Those splash screens for the most part can just be deleted, they are in a folder called \movies usually in the installation folder... man i hate those things...
Well obviously you don't know what you are talking about when it comes to welfare and you aren't "poor" although you like to say you are so you can feel good about your selfishness.
I have been on welfare, known numerous people on welfare and seen what the system does for people.
Welfare helps children most of all.. and if you had ever been on welfare you would know that it does not supply loads of cash to spend on your every hearts desire.. I seem to remember getting 600 a month with a wife AND a child and about 200 in food stamps, with rent being 650 in itself it was always a challenge to make ends meet.
This was no life to admire and I wouldn't wish it on anyone... but it did help us get by in lean times... now i am fully employed and so is my wife.. we make good money and I happily pay into a system that would help others who hit hard times like it helped me when i needed it.
I am neither black or unmotivated but i was poor, will i vote for someone who supports welfare... you bet your ass i will... they helped me when republicans like yourself could have given a damn but didn't.
I don't know what reality you live in but everyone I knew who was on welfare barely could make ends meet let alone drive fancy cars... but maybe the bullshit you spew helps you sleep at night so whatever...
And about you being poor, do you go hungry? when was the last time you didn't have enough money to eat? or a place to sleep? or clean water, or able to clean yourself and clothes regularly?
Only in america could you have it so good that someone who has a roof over their heads, a full belly every night and clothes on their back that are less than 6 months old would complain that they are "poor".
Whatever