really, the standard argument of voting with your wallet just serves the **AA just as well as pirating. Sales drop and they will happily cook the books to 'show' that it is down to piracy and thus they will lobby for even more draconian clamp downs on the net.
The cycle will continue till either the authorities get fedup with their antics and tell them to f'off, or hopefully, artists realise that they can benefit from a new business model provided by a new breed of record label.
as far as i'm aware (i'm sure someone will correct me if i am wrong) the G4 iBook isn't the same G4 chip as the powerbook.
The iBook has a G3 chip with altivec whereas the powerbook runs the same G4 processor as the powerpcs so there is a big real-world performance difference
i was a server admin for quite a while, and i can tell you that CD is mostly a waste of time, it takes a couple of days - after the newest version is out - to find cracked client dlls on leet hax0r sites so that it doesnt scan the client pc for cheats and just returns an ok result. VAC unfortunately is the best we have right now.
In a way, i firmly believe that Nintendo sit in their own niche within the various console markets.
I would never only own a Nintendo console, because they don't have the very best titles (Sony have traditionally managed this, while MS are trying to buy their way into it), but they do have a lot of the most innovative and down right fun games. These kind of games that large publishers like EA can't see a guaranteed paycheck from and so never touch but Nintendo have a belief in their gaming, even though the volume of titles on their consoles is always dissapointing, that always seems to deliver.
and from a personal pov the 3 words i am looking for are 'Animal Crossing Online'.
even taking into account macromedias claims, certainly the flash 6 penetration is over 80%. thats really pretty good for a world wide figure.
in the market for the kind of user DENG is targeting the penetration would probably be 100%.
"And when users with Flash 5 go to a site that requires 6 or 7, do they get prompted to download a newer version? No, they just see a partially working Flash animation, or a blank screen."
yes, if the developer has done their job properly. if not then it is a limitation of the developer, not of the software as there are a number of reliable ways to sniff the exact version (down the the nth point).
re: getting cd keys via trojans
that has happened before, it was distributed across quakenet i believe.
the problem now is that you dont need a cd key to run and install HL anymore, steam lets you get it for free, and by creating a new account, you are able to have a new steam:id (which replaced won:id) whenever you want. yes, admining servers does indeed suck now
If the software hooks into the client somehow then it could well violate the EULA, however its going to be a very weak stance even if this is the case.
Some cheat software does not exploit bugs per-se, so to blame Valve only is not fair, for example it is only in years after HL that people have come up with concepts like not sending the client information about occluded objects (and so its impossible to wallhack).
IMO it's just propaganda building up ready for the realse of HL2. Get the name everywhere in the gamign and other media and start whipping up the hype. Otherwise why wait so long?
a gaming community called the online warfare pact (.org) has had a strict stance on cheating across a fair few HL mods and has been heavily flamed for it by the more 'leet' side of the community. damned if you do, damned if you don't.
planetside is neither innovative or particually good in my opinion. if it had included half the things the developer had set out to do then perhaps, but too much got cut out.
i have heard rave reviews of world of warcrafts gameplay, but the character progression is too limiting by all acccounts. i am playing Lineage2 beta right now and i am totally hooked. i started on the new Euro test servers on friday and am now a level 15 elf fighter...things are looking very promising and will get even better when clans are fully introduced.
the problem i usually have is that all mmo games ive played in beta so far have been really fun, but by the time i buy them i have done most of what i wanted to do and thus i lose interest quickly. planetside, swg, everquest, ascherons call were all the same in that regard.
as its been said, it was a typo...but more to the point, with a rendering farm, RAM isn't that relevant as you are just after CPU grunt...the only reason 3d workstations have large amounts of ram is so yo ucan cache hi-res textures in the viewports
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really, the standard argument of voting with your wallet just serves the **AA just as well as pirating. Sales drop and they will happily cook the books to 'show' that it is down to piracy and thus they will lobby for even more draconian clamp downs on the net.
The cycle will continue till either the authorities get fedup with their antics and tell them to f'off, or hopefully, artists realise that they can benefit from a new business model provided by a new breed of record label.
$10 says they actually find the lost valley of the dinosaurs.
or maybe just frostbite
as far as i'm aware (i'm sure someone will correct me if i am wrong) the G4 iBook isn't the same G4 chip as the powerbook. The iBook has a G3 chip with altivec whereas the powerbook runs the same G4 processor as the powerpcs so there is a big real-world performance difference
i was a server admin for quite a while, and i can tell you that CD is mostly a waste of time, it takes a couple of days - after the newest version is out - to find cracked client dlls on leet hax0r sites so that it doesnt scan the client pc for cheats and just returns an ok result. VAC unfortunately is the best we have right now.
In a way, i firmly believe that Nintendo sit in their own niche within the various console markets.
I would never only own a Nintendo console, because they don't have the very best titles (Sony have traditionally managed this, while MS are trying to buy their way into it), but they do have a lot of the most innovative and down right fun games. These kind of games that large publishers like EA can't see a guaranteed paycheck from and so never touch but Nintendo have a belief in their gaming, even though the volume of titles on their consoles is always dissapointing, that always seems to deliver.
and from a personal pov the 3 words i am looking for are 'Animal Crossing Online'.
even taking into account macromedias claims, certainly the flash 6 penetration is over 80%. thats really pretty good for a world wide figure. in the market for the kind of user DENG is targeting the penetration would probably be 100%. "And when users with Flash 5 go to a site that requires 6 or 7, do they get prompted to download a newer version? No, they just see a partially working Flash animation, or a blank screen." yes, if the developer has done their job properly. if not then it is a limitation of the developer, not of the software as there are a number of reliable ways to sniff the exact version (down the the nth point).
new apple have a disclaimer:
"purchases of our portable computers are in no way a viable alternative to a girlfriend"
and thus making WiFi reliant on wires. 'so crazy it might just work'
re: getting cd keys via trojans
that has happened before, it was distributed across quakenet i believe.
the problem now is that you dont need a cd key to run and install HL anymore, steam lets you get it for free, and by creating a new account, you are able to have a new steam:id (which replaced won:id) whenever you want. yes, admining servers does indeed suck now
If the software hooks into the client somehow then it could well violate the EULA, however its going to be a very weak stance even if this is the case. Some cheat software does not exploit bugs per-se, so to blame Valve only is not fair, for example it is only in years after HL that people have come up with concepts like not sending the client information about occluded objects (and so its impossible to wallhack). IMO it's just propaganda building up ready for the realse of HL2. Get the name everywhere in the gamign and other media and start whipping up the hype. Otherwise why wait so long? a gaming community called the online warfare pact (.org) has had a strict stance on cheating across a fair few HL mods and has been heavily flamed for it by the more 'leet' side of the community. damned if you do, damned if you don't.
i actually think eurogamer is very unbiased. so is edge on the non-digital front
planetside is neither innovative or particually good in my opinion. if it had included half the things the developer had set out to do then perhaps, but too much got cut out. i have heard rave reviews of world of warcrafts gameplay, but the character progression is too limiting by all acccounts. i am playing Lineage2 beta right now and i am totally hooked. i started on the new Euro test servers on friday and am now a level 15 elf fighter...things are looking very promising and will get even better when clans are fully introduced. the problem i usually have is that all mmo games ive played in beta so far have been really fun, but by the time i buy them i have done most of what i wanted to do and thus i lose interest quickly. planetside, swg, everquest, ascherons call were all the same in that regard.
as its been said, it was a typo...but more to the point, with a rendering farm, RAM isn't that relevant as you are just after CPU grunt...the only reason 3d workstations have large amounts of ram is so yo ucan cache hi-res textures in the viewports