My friend's desktop has at least three "New Folder's" and who knows what they contain:x
As for I, when on windows, because I went nuts with the organization of icons in windows on my desktop, I use Blackbox for Windows which brings the black/fluxbox minimalist shell to windows by replacing explorer and creates the iconless environment that I always loved.
At least don't have these robots perform surgery
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The Pusher and Shover robots must not do what they do best in a hospital! Unless of course the remedy is to shove bread down somebody's throat.
it makes perfect sense my friend. They write the buggy software, they should fix it. I wonder if they'll make different editions such as "Free", "Pro", "SuperDuperPro" and add features to each at "X" cost per license Microsoft then makes more cash and last time I checked, cash is good!
when you can do it When you're logged in with your games fully updated which is done automatically from servers faster than waiting lets say, in-line at fileplanet or searching for a mirror on google or filemirrors.
how you can do it You can play offline if you save your login info in your pc. Otherwise, configure it as you want like HL1 (before Steam) via user-specific configs or use whatever tool to launch games. It's not any different.
and can pull the plug for ANY reason That's right. If you hack and are caught, you're banned. If you're cd-key is spreaded among people, then your account is banned. Otherwise, its one account to have as long as Steam is online.
What if Valve gets bought out by Sony, for example, and Sony decides to crack down on MP3 and Divx files? Valve made two games until now. Half-Life and Half-Life 2. That and several mods that they bought the rights or ported such as Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. They are on top of their game and the last thing they'd do is let this company be acquired by a giant. Won't happend unless Valve screws up somewhere.
What if Valve decides to charge a monthly access to Steam? Do you have a chain around your neck saying that you are owned by them? If they somehow decide that fees should be payed to use Steam for whatever reason, people aren't stupid, they will leave and so would I.
What if Valve goes out of business or its servers get shut down? Steam servers going offline is the only thing that worries me. Without those servers, our copies would be useless but I guess a company that wouldn't want to lose loyal fans would release some kind of patch so we could play even at that worst possible scenario.
What if Steam makes mistakes and people who validly paid for the game gets screwed out of ALL of their Valve games?! Does Valve really think it has created the first perfect system in all of humanity It could happend. If that happends, then nothing's stopping you from taking action against them. You have rights as a consumer and federal laws say so from Canada, US, UK, Germany, and many others. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
It's far from a perfect system but until now, it's doing the job that it's suppose to do. A lot of europeen customers got screwed because their dvd drive couldn't read their media. Valve ignored for a long time (I was going nuts too) but they eventually gave in and now theres no cd-check. They don't completely ignore us.
With Steam buyers of Half-Life 2 have given up any resale rights. They have given up any right to play the game off line. And despite the fact that the game is validated every time you play it, you're still stuck using the CD when you play. Ignorant. Read my last statement. Valve did remove the cd-check. The file "Source Shared Securom.gcf" is no longer downloaded by Steam.
And where is the advantage to the user?! If Steam eliminated all piracy of Half-Life 2, why isn't it cheaper?! I don't understand that logic. So if a product can be pirated, then it has to be more expensif? Damn dude! Lets Raise the price of Windows up to $5000 USD!
This is why many gamers use a no-cd crack, or something similar, even with a legit copy of a game. Sorry, but I just can't be bothered to hunt around for the original install media every time I want to use software that I purchased.
Its true. We needed the cds in the drives in order to play HL2 but that's the past. Valve removed the cd-check a while ago therefor making retail copies look exactly like a bronze deal from Steam. You can check since the file "Source Shared Securom.gcf" is no longer downloaded by Steam if you use a retail key.
From the looks of your reply, you seem to be playing the pirated version seeing how well you know the game provided by erm, lets say Emporio? *WinkWink*.
The game's good, The system's intention is good. Therefore I support it.
the goal that Valve are trying to reach with Steam is all good. I'd just like to see a few features implemented such as cd-key transfering. If that's not possible, then maybe something to enable us to run 2 or more steam accounts at the same time. That way, I wouldn't be switching logins to play HL1 or HL2 back n forth. Their faq does state that the current feature of cd-key transfering is in the works so that's good I guess. Currently, only way of doing this is to pay $10 to Valve and ship your retail copy (if any) and tell them where to transfer the key. They are just being greedy.
By keeping automatically Steam up to date, it makes pirates go nuts to have to update their distributions of games so hopefully systems like this will discourage pirates since it keeps them working nonstop. It is a fact that not long ago Valve has banned another 30 000 accounts from trying to use an invalid/cracked key and with those first 20 000 banned, it shows that Valve are commmitted to fight back against cheapskates.
Alongside SCO and Microsoft, geeks now have found a new giant to shake their digital fists at.
Now, don't get me wrong, they are all "evil" but I have not found a place other than slashdot where I hear people argue on how much SCO or EA "suck" but geeks are found everywhere (or almost). In conclusion, the author is then a member of slashdot, isnt' that right COWBOY!
Same thing can be said about Apple's OS-X operating systems or linux distributions.
IE doesn't have bad coding. IE is just good coding gone bad when put in practice for users like you and me. For a company as big as Microsoft, they have no valid excuse to not improve a software which is used by most internet users. People saying M$ doesn't care because they want to focus on competing software where profit can be made are somewhat right but like I said, they have divisions concentrated in specific fields so why not change the plans of the devs working on IE?
The statement of "If this was more popular, then it would be as exploited as.." is far from being false but putting that aside, with the many years that M$ "could" of worked on IE after its competition with Netscape, one wonders if its M$ that just don't give a shit anymore or if its because FF isn't popular enough to get the attention from crackers/exploiters.
Sure, SpaceShipOne accomplished what was accomplished in the 60's but to do it at the fraction of the cost from private funding and support, if you ask me, that should be considered a technology breakthrough of 2004.
and it shows how differently it performs compared to things like compiling a kernel in linux. According to the review, it competes almost as fast or sometimes as fast as the A64 in some games.
It's still an impressive cpu and better than tha bacon-cooker (prescott).
I just hope any 'attempted murder' sentences will last more than 15 years because if software pirates get 15, then convicts arrested for shooting somebody should have double!
SPAM punishes itself by giving an "evil" image for their company.
Best way to punish spam is by keeping your friends AND foes aware of what to not pay attention. In the end, hopefully, they'll make less profit. Nonviolence resistance demands patience and is a slow process but always shows progression.
THE FIRST PLACE where I look for clean software is sourceforge. You'd be surprised at the number of projects that are for both windows and linux so both sides get the benefits.;)
When comes the time that Mother Nature will give us droughts and floods and poison monkeys all together, you will care! - reference from "Simpsons: The Old Man & the Lisa"
Sometimes me and my friends we prepare ghetto lans at somebody's house and we usually play fps games or red alert. What happended is once one of my friends got so pissed off at the so-called "bullshit". He then smashed his logitech mouse on his desk and we had to lend him another so he could until play until the end. It was funny though. Even he laughed at what he did.
If you ask me, I pay for this hardware and no matter how much "bs" I'll get, I'd never think of damaging anything under my name.
Only hardware I get pissed at is the monitors at school by smacking them cause sometimes I forget to close oracle cause it takes up 100mb easy:x
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and Chewbacca dunks from downtown! It does not make sense!
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My friend's desktop has at least three "New Folder's" and who knows what they contain :x
As for I, when on windows, because I went nuts with the organization of icons in windows on my desktop, I use Blackbox for Windows which brings the black/fluxbox minimalist shell to windows by replacing explorer and creates the iconless environment that I always loved.
The Pusher and Shover robots must not do what they do best in a hospital! Unless of course the remedy is to shove bread down somebody's throat.
it makes perfect sense my friend. They write the buggy software, they should fix it. I wonder if they'll make different editions such as "Free", "Pro", "SuperDuperPro" and add features to each at "X" cost per license Microsoft then makes more cash and last time I checked, cash is good!
Every simpsons "fan" seems to get this wrong. get it right! It's
"My Eyes! The goggles DO NOTHING ARGh..."
There is no "they".
The "lead" actors Christianson and Portman ... ... there's better acting on SAVED BY THE BELL
Now you really went too far. Yes they suck but I'd put it as the following.
The only acting that you can find equivalent to Clone is from Steven Seagal's movies!
*ducks & hides*
So now iPod owners (or any other portable device) can benefit of this to protect their goodies from marks/scratches.
The transparent glass-like paint could be used to protect lcd screens.
Steam tells you want to do
Play games
when you can do it
When you're logged in with your games fully updated which is done automatically from servers faster than waiting lets say, in-line at fileplanet or searching for a mirror on google or filemirrors.
how you can do it
You can play offline if you save your login info in your pc. Otherwise, configure it as you want like HL1 (before Steam) via user-specific configs or use whatever tool to launch games. It's not any different.
and can pull the plug for ANY reason
That's right. If you hack and are caught, you're banned. If you're cd-key is spreaded among people, then your account is banned. Otherwise, its one account to have as long as Steam is online.
What if Valve gets bought out by Sony, for example, and Sony decides to crack down on MP3 and Divx files?
Valve made two games until now. Half-Life and Half-Life 2. That and several mods that they bought the rights or ported such as Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. They are on top of their game and the last thing they'd do is let this company be acquired by a giant. Won't happend unless Valve screws up somewhere.
What if Valve decides to charge a monthly access to Steam?
Do you have a chain around your neck saying that you are owned by them? If they somehow decide that fees should be payed to use Steam for whatever reason, people aren't stupid, they will leave and so would I.
What if Valve goes out of business or its servers get shut down?
Steam servers going offline is the only thing that worries me. Without those servers, our copies would be useless but I guess a company that wouldn't want to lose loyal fans would release some kind of patch so we could play even at that worst possible scenario.
What if Steam makes mistakes and people who validly paid for the game gets screwed out of ALL of their Valve games?! Does Valve really think it has created the first perfect system in all of humanity
It could happend. If that happends, then nothing's stopping you from taking action against them. You have rights as a consumer and federal laws say so from Canada, US, UK, Germany, and many others. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
It's far from a perfect system but until now, it's doing the job that it's suppose to do. A lot of europeen customers got screwed because their dvd drive couldn't read their media. Valve ignored for a long time (I was going nuts too) but they eventually gave in and now theres no cd-check. They don't completely ignore us.
With Steam buyers of Half-Life 2 have given up any resale rights. They have given up any right to play the game off line. And despite the fact that the game is validated every time you play it, you're still stuck using the CD when you play.
Ignorant. Read my last statement. Valve did remove the cd-check. The file "Source Shared Securom.gcf" is no longer downloaded by Steam.
And where is the advantage to the user?! If Steam eliminated all piracy of Half-Life 2, why isn't it cheaper?!
I don't understand that logic. So if a product can be pirated, then it has to be more expensif? Damn dude! Lets Raise the price of Windows up to $5000 USD!
That's it that's all.
This is why many gamers use a no-cd crack, or something similar, even with a legit copy of a game. Sorry, but I just can't be bothered to hunt around for the original install media every time I want to use software that I purchased.
Its true. We needed the cds in the drives in order to play HL2 but that's the past. Valve removed the cd-check a while ago therefor making retail copies look exactly like a bronze deal from Steam. You can check since the file "Source Shared Securom.gcf" is no longer downloaded by Steam if you use a retail key.
From the looks of your reply, you seem to be playing the pirated version seeing how well you know the game provided by erm, lets say Emporio? *WinkWink*.
The game's good, The system's intention is good. Therefore I support it.
the goal that Valve are trying to reach with Steam is all good. I'd just like to see a few features implemented such as cd-key transfering. If that's not possible, then maybe something to enable us to run 2 or more steam accounts at the same time. That way, I wouldn't be switching logins to play HL1 or HL2 back n forth. Their faq does state that the current feature of cd-key transfering is in the works so that's good I guess. Currently, only way of doing this is to pay $10 to Valve and ship your retail copy (if any) and tell them where to transfer the key. They are just being greedy.
By keeping automatically Steam up to date, it makes pirates go nuts to have to update their distributions of games so hopefully systems like this will discourage pirates since it keeps them working nonstop. It is a fact that not long ago Valve has banned another 30 000 accounts from trying to use an invalid/cracked key and with those first 20 000 banned, it shows that Valve are commmitted to fight back against cheapskates.
Alongside SCO and Microsoft, geeks now have found a new giant to shake their digital fists at.
Now, don't get me wrong, they are all "evil" but I have not found a place other than slashdot where I hear people argue on how much SCO or EA "suck" but geeks are found everywhere (or almost). In conclusion, the author is then a member of slashdot, isnt' that right COWBOY!
This excuse is getting old.
Same thing can be said about Apple's OS-X operating systems or linux distributions.
IE doesn't have bad coding. IE is just good coding gone bad when put in practice for users like you and me. For a company as big as Microsoft, they have no valid excuse to not improve a software which is used by most internet users. People saying M$ doesn't care because they want to focus on competing software where profit can be made are somewhat right but like I said, they have divisions concentrated in specific fields so why not change the plans of the devs working on IE?
The statement of "If this was more popular, then it would be as exploited as.." is far from being false but putting that aside, with the many years that M$ "could" of worked on IE after its competition with Netscape, one wonders if its M$ that just don't give a shit anymore or if its because FF isn't popular enough to get the attention from crackers/exploiters.
My sqrt(4) cents
Sure, SpaceShipOne accomplished what was accomplished in the 60's but to do it at the fraction of the cost from private funding and support, if you ask me, that should be considered a technology breakthrough of 2004.
Me Homer, I'm running from PBS
I feel a great joy for this event.
Weird. /. added a space in that url after "dot". Not sure why that happended.
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=dot hangaming&page=1
and it shows how differently it performs compared to things like compiling a kernel in linux. According to the review, it competes almost as fast or sometimes as fast as the A64 in some games.
It's still an impressive cpu and better than tha bacon-cooker (prescott).
I just hope any 'attempted murder' sentences will last more than 15 years because if software pirates get 15, then convicts arrested for shooting somebody should have double!
SPAM punishes itself by giving an "evil" image for their company.
Best way to punish spam is by keeping your friends AND foes aware of what to not pay attention. In the end, hopefully, they'll make less profit. Nonviolence resistance demands patience and is a slow process but always shows progression.
Lets ask George Costanza
George: My mom's back went out she's in the hospital. She kept saying "Why George! Why!". Because it's there!
It's part of the book entitled "Karma-whoring for Dummies".
The first chapter lists the vast choices of jokes that you can pull off on Microsoft.
*smells a second chapter description below this*
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/o rge.net/
;)
http://cdexos.sourcef
http://www.virtualdub.org/
THE FIRST PLACE where I look for clean software is sourceforge. You'd be surprised at the number of projects that are for both windows and linux so both sides get the benefits.
When comes the time that Mother Nature will give us droughts and floods and poison monkeys all together, you will care!
- reference from "Simpsons: The Old Man & the Lisa"
No! The question is:
Does it run Longhorn? =)
Sometimes me and my friends we prepare ghetto lans at somebody's house and we usually play fps games or red alert.
:x
What happended is once one of my friends got so pissed off at the so-called "bullshit". He then smashed his logitech mouse on his desk and we had to lend him another so he could until play until the end. It was funny though. Even he laughed at what he did.
If you ask me, I pay for this hardware and no matter how much "bs" I'll get, I'd never think of damaging anything under my name.
Only hardware I get pissed at is the monitors at school by smacking them cause sometimes I forget to close oracle cause it takes up 100mb easy
and Chewbacca dunks from downtown! It does not make sense!