I'm going to take my 1100 discs worth of ripped CDs (100% legal)
Actually, under the 1988 Copyright Designs & Patents act, ripping CDs you own is illegal in the UK
1) There is nothing stopping you from using a modern graphics card on a non-MS operating system. The GeForce 7-series cards work perfectly well under BSD, Solaris or Linux - using 2D-only Free drivers or proprietary 3D drivers. Infact, chances are you could swap your current card over with zero reconfiguration (depending on the card. A new nvidia-glx release might be required).
2) DRM enforcement... What? Have you considered basing your posts on reality? Whether a game implements copy protection or not is ENTIRELY distinct from its system requirements. There are purely 2D games, and even business software, using copy protection - and modern 3D games without any. There is absolutely *ZERO* provision in the graphics hardware for implementing DRM.
Some gamers may be old enoguih to remember Syndicate Wars, which featured gratuitous amounts of advertising for Manga Inc, and Ghost in the Shell specifically.
Floating billboards in the game proclaimed "own a piece of pre-syndicate history; Ghost in the Shell"
Other gamers might remember Theme Park which (in the UK at least) was heavily sponsored by Midland Bank - the balloons from the balloon shop featured the Midland logo, and the into video to the game featured the Midland Bank Sofa, the advertising device used in the TV adverts of the day.
Advertising in games is nothing new, it isn't neccessarily the end of the world.
Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, said he and other Sony employees had been frustrated for years with management
SCE are the Playstation people. The Playstation people say "Sony screwed up". The Walkman people are probably still creaming their pants over how nobody wants MP3 and would prefer ATRAC
Bleep.com is one of the most "advanced" stores from a Slashot user perspective - all content is available exclusively as DRM-free LAME --alt-preset standard MP3 files, with Vorbis and FLAC under consideratiojn in the future. Tracks are charged at 99p each, albums and EPs come at a heavy discount.
Of the money paid, they are refreshingly honest about the payment split (99p - running costs / 2 goes to the artist and the record label)
The store is owned and operated by Warp Records, of Aphex Twin fame, though a number of similar labels operate on bleep.com's store & terms.
It's the most consumer-friendly thing we've got, in a sea of WMA and M4P
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not yet - "soon" is the official release, at the moment, for doom3 under linux.
hope you have an nvidia card...
oh, and go into your bios & force it to use LBA to access your hard disks rather than Auto, that should fix grub dual-boot problems with windows.
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I'm going to take my 1100 discs worth of ripped CDs (100% legal) Actually, under the 1988 Copyright Designs & Patents act, ripping CDs you own is illegal in the UK
Sorry, but some if this is entirely absurd.
1) There is nothing stopping you from using a modern graphics card on a non-MS operating system. The GeForce 7-series cards work perfectly well under BSD, Solaris or Linux - using 2D-only Free drivers or proprietary 3D drivers. Infact, chances are you could swap your current card over with zero reconfiguration (depending on the card. A new nvidia-glx release might be required).
2) DRM enforcement... What? Have you considered basing your posts on reality? Whether a game implements copy protection or not is ENTIRELY distinct from its system requirements. There are purely 2D games, and even business software, using copy protection - and modern 3D games without any. There is absolutely *ZERO* provision in the graphics hardware for implementing DRM.
Except it's only available in New Zeland, which doesn't use zap2it.
Some gamers may be old enoguih to remember Syndicate Wars, which featured gratuitous amounts of advertising for Manga Inc, and Ghost in the Shell specifically. Floating billboards in the game proclaimed "own a piece of pre-syndicate history; Ghost in the Shell" Other gamers might remember Theme Park which (in the UK at least) was heavily sponsored by Midland Bank - the balloons from the balloon shop featured the Midland logo, and the into video to the game featured the Midland Bank Sofa, the advertising device used in the TV adverts of the day. Advertising in games is nothing new, it isn't neccessarily the end of the world.
Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, said he and other Sony employees had been frustrated for years with management SCE are the Playstation people. The Playstation people say "Sony screwed up". The Walkman people are probably still creaming their pants over how nobody wants MP3 and would prefer ATRAC
Bleep.com is one of the most "advanced" stores from a Slashot user perspective - all content is available exclusively as DRM-free LAME --alt-preset standard MP3 files, with Vorbis and FLAC under consideratiojn in the future. Tracks are charged at 99p each, albums and EPs come at a heavy discount. Of the money paid, they are refreshingly honest about the payment split (99p - running costs / 2 goes to the artist and the record label) The store is owned and operated by Warp Records, of Aphex Twin fame, though a number of similar labels operate on bleep.com's store & terms. It's the most consumer-friendly thing we've got, in a sea of WMA and M4P
not yet - "soon" is the official release, at the moment, for doom3 under linux.
hope you have an nvidia card...
oh, and go into your bios & force it to use LBA to access your hard disks rather than Auto, that should fix grub dual-boot problems with windows.
Hear that? That's the cries of anguish from Linux distributors who won't be allowed to use Bittorrent to send out ISO's anymore.