But what is the difference between steam and, say, Walmart's DRMed music? The music only needs to phone home if you make significant changes to your machine. That will happen a lot less often than playing online will.
Valve may claim they will write some skeleton patch when they go under, but I highly doubt a dying company is going to burn resources that way. Especially when it would be a clear indicator that they were about to fail. If they were really serious about the patch it would be in escrow somewhere waiting for the company to fail.
I have to agree with the GP, steam gets good press on Slashdot despite being as bad or worse than existing music DRM schemes that everyone hates.
It sounds like you need to tighten your tinfoil hat. Clearly the power companies say this so they can reap the rich rewards of an extra hour of artificial lighting.
This sounds like a variation on the old paradox:
To walk across a room, you must first walk half of the distance. To walk half the distance, you must first walk half of that. There are an infinite number of half distances that must be travelled before reaching a destination, so how do we get anywhere?
Nobody gives a crap about any of those, not even the publishers. They're abandonware. The GBA or PSX games are the only ones that even come close to warez.
It's pretty hard to classify something as abandonware when anyone with a wii can purchase it for a fair price...
Paid back to the government. Whether or not that money gets back to the taxpayers is a different matter all together. Don't be too surprised if the money that comes back from this goes to fund whatever the disaster of the week is down the road.
This argument always seems to come up whenever the subject involves bots. I don't think it matters how interesting a game is. MMORPGs are all about being rewarded. That is what makes people play them. They enjoy getting something that is difficult to get. If a bot means you can get rewarded while you sleep or go to school then some people will use bots. If you make it so that the best items take no time or effort to achieve then the entire concept breaks down and the game isn't fun.
While I do believe that the primary goal is to fight piracy, these devices have legitimate uses as a conduit for homebrew and backups. Being able to choose a game from a list that contains your entire library sure beats carrying a backpack full of cartridges around...
Statistically, the odds of your individual vote getting one first party candidate elected over another are essentially zero. If voting for a third party is throwing your vote away, then voting in the first place is throwing your vote away.
When I first heard about the wii I wanted to develop a sword fighting game for it. Something like Rune with the 1v1 focus of a fighting game. After tinkering around with it after it came out I realized it just wasn't possible with the motion detection provided.
My plan for handling your wii mote getting out of sync with your character's sword was to make it a gameplay feature. The idea was to make it so when you were holding down one of the buttons, it would stop tracking your movement. As an example lets say you follow through with a cut that would go to the floor, but you get parried half way through. Your wii mote is now pointed down, but your sword is about level. You need to hold down a button and quickly move your wii mote so that it is in the approximate position of your sword. Then you can let go of the button and continue swinging. I suspect that this would become second nature eventually.
Give up some references or go home. I'm not a student of law, but I believe most cases involve at least two lawyers. If your rights are being defended by a lawyer, then their is likely a lawyer who is attacking them.
I hope you never get arrested for a crime you didn't commit or your kid isn't poisoned by some product made by a careless corporation. Yeah, because your appointed lawyer is sure to beat said careless corporation's lawyer.
I hope you never get prosecuted or sued by the RIAA because your neighbor's son hacked your wireless router and used it to play with torrentz. You may not be aware of this, but the RIAA has been using its highly paid lawyers to win the majority of those laughable cases.
It can be argued that lawyers do as much to protect our freedoms as the men and women in our military. Maybe more. For every lawyer who defended someone's rights, there was another lawyer trying to usurp them for profit.
Sadly, the amount of money you spend on your lawyer can be a much larger factor in the outcome of your case than being in the right is.
'There is more to computing than processor speed -- a point which can be easily proven by comparing a two-year-old PC running Linux with a new PC buckling under the weight of Vista.'
Are they suggesting Intel and AMD should be developing software instead of improving on their processors?
But if a company promises you they will keep your data from the authorities, then they are the ones in the wrong. The onus is on the company to understand the laws before they make you a promise that they cannot keep.
I'm not sure how they can do this. MMORPGs generaly have a clause in the EULA stating that all virtual goods belong to them and have no intrinsic value. If the government decides that they do in fact have value, what happens when a server goes down just after you recieved a valuable item and you are rolled back to before you got it? Can you sue the game's owner for the value of the item? Can these games survive if a hardware failure could result in massive lawsuits against them?
This headline mentions a relationship between sony and 1up.com. Acouple headlines down the list and we see a link to an article on 1up.com comparing the wii and ps3 in favor of the ps3. Probably coincidence but interesting nonetheless.
MUDs aren't dead. There is still an active community, although it is smaller than it used to be.
If you enjoy MMORPGs, you owe it to yourself to give MUDs a shot. Try the abandoned realms, or find a mud that fits you best at the mud connector.
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But what is the difference between steam and, say, Walmart's DRMed music? The music only needs to phone home if you make significant changes to your machine. That will happen a lot less often than playing online will. Valve may claim they will write some skeleton patch when they go under, but I highly doubt a dying company is going to burn resources that way. Especially when it would be a clear indicator that they were about to fail. If they were really serious about the patch it would be in escrow somewhere waiting for the company to fail. I have to agree with the GP, steam gets good press on Slashdot despite being as bad or worse than existing music DRM schemes that everyone hates.
I'll be really excited when we can get continually updated 6 inch data
I'm pretty sure there is a joke in there somewhere...
It sounds like you need to tighten your tinfoil hat. Clearly the power companies say this so they can reap the rich rewards of an extra hour of artificial lighting.
This sounds like a variation on the old paradox: To walk across a room, you must first walk half of the distance. To walk half the distance, you must first walk half of that. There are an infinite number of half distances that must be travelled before reaching a destination, so how do we get anywhere?
Nobody gives a crap about any of those, not even the publishers. They're abandonware. The GBA or PSX games are the only ones that even come close to warez.
It's pretty hard to classify something as abandonware when anyone with a wii can purchase it for a fair price...
Paid back to the government. Whether or not that money gets back to the taxpayers is a different matter all together. Don't be too surprised if the money that comes back from this goes to fund whatever the disaster of the week is down the road.
This argument always seems to come up whenever the subject involves bots. I don't think it matters how interesting a game is. MMORPGs are all about being rewarded. That is what makes people play them. They enjoy getting something that is difficult to get. If a bot means you can get rewarded while you sleep or go to school then some people will use bots. If you make it so that the best items take no time or effort to achieve then the entire concept breaks down and the game isn't fun.
While I do believe that the primary goal is to fight piracy, these devices have legitimate uses as a conduit for homebrew and backups. Being able to choose a game from a list that contains your entire library sure beats carrying a backpack full of cartridges around...
Statistically, the odds of your individual vote getting one first party candidate elected over another are essentially zero. If voting for a third party is throwing your vote away, then voting in the first place is throwing your vote away.
Did you get fired for leaving active sessions logged in as root?
When I first heard about the wii I wanted to develop a sword fighting game for it. Something like Rune with the 1v1 focus of a fighting game. After tinkering around with it after it came out I realized it just wasn't possible with the motion detection provided. My plan for handling your wii mote getting out of sync with your character's sword was to make it a gameplay feature. The idea was to make it so when you were holding down one of the buttons, it would stop tracking your movement. As an example lets say you follow through with a cut that would go to the floor, but you get parried half way through. Your wii mote is now pointed down, but your sword is about level. You need to hold down a button and quickly move your wii mote so that it is in the approximate position of your sword. Then you can let go of the button and continue swinging. I suspect that this would become second nature eventually.
I suppose the parentheses suggest a two element array?
Not to mention network with alien motherships.
'There is more to computing than processor speed -- a point which can be easily proven by comparing a two-year-old PC running Linux with a new PC buckling under the weight of Vista.' Are they suggesting Intel and AMD should be developing software instead of improving on their processors?
But if a company promises you they will keep your data from the authorities, then they are the ones in the wrong. The onus is on the company to understand the laws before they make you a promise that they cannot keep.
I wonder if this has something to do with the stigma certain numbers like seven and thirteen have?
Representatives speak on their company's behalf. That's what they do.
I'm not sure how they can do this. MMORPGs generaly have a clause in the EULA stating that all virtual goods belong to them and have no intrinsic value. If the government decides that they do in fact have value, what happens when a server goes down just after you recieved a valuable item and you are rolled back to before you got it? Can you sue the game's owner for the value of the item? Can these games survive if a hardware failure could result in massive lawsuits against them?
This headline mentions a relationship between sony and 1up.com. Acouple headlines down the list and we see a link to an article on 1up.com comparing the wii and ps3 in favor of the ps3. Probably coincidence but interesting nonetheless.
The word 'Edgy' in the headline is refering to the name of the release of ubuntu in question, not the artwork itself.
If you really want to follow the security through lack of marketshare model then you should install os/2 or dos.
Then all you would need is a great big red TURBO button on the front of your case...
MUDs aren't dead. There is still an active community, although it is smaller than it used to be. If you enjoy MMORPGs, you owe it to yourself to give MUDs a shot. Try the abandoned realms, or find a mud that fits you best at the mud connector.