It's not that the downloading is legal, 'cause it's not. It's that the penalties for downloading are NOTHING compared to the penalties for distributing.
How is having confidence in an unproven scientific theory any different that having faith in god?
This is the sentence that shows your misconceptions about science.
One does not have "confidence" in an unproven scientific theory. Unproven theories are tested and tested and REtested. If the theory is incorrect, it's rethought and revised. A theory is NEVER "trusted" until it has stood against rigor.
On the other hand, religion is trusted because, why, exactly? Because it's written in a book?
Religion and science is are two completely different beasts. Whereas religion is deeply personal and highly subjective, science is very much objective, and always reviewed by one's peers.
Evolution is a theory that has been around for some time now. MOUNTAINS of fossil evidence supports it. It has been examined time and time again, and the theories regarding the mechanics behind it have been revisited numerous times, as well. The only logical conclusion is that evolution is a fact; the evidence clearly shows it occurring, we just haven't quite figured out the specifics yet; at least not perfectly.
Also, re-read my first post. My problem is with those who can't reconcile their religious beliefs with science, not with religion in general. Science doesn't invalidate religion, and people who act like it does piss me off. If your "faith" isn't strong enough to survive basic science, then it isn't faith at all. It's ignorance. And calling that "faith" is an insult to anyone who holds true faith; one who can see that the mechanics of the universe doesn't threaten the existence of God, even if those mechanics DON'T match up with the literal reading of a book written thousands of years ago.
Putting theological doctrine to the test is all well and good when it is theologians that are involved in weighing the voodoo to see what fits and what doesn't.
Fixed that for ya.
Seriously, since when has religion been about evidence?
Faith is not sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la-la-la" so you don't hear thing that challenge your beliefs. If you want to cling to a literal interpretation of a document written by a primitive group of humans that wouldn't have understood even if God HAD tried to show them exactly how he made everything, go right ahead. Meanwhile, I'll be over here thinking of evolution as how I was created.
Probably should have put a little more in there...
Again, we're talking about WM-based phones, lacking QWERTY keyboards and barcode reading. Even considering that the UPC would be a little harder to remember, it would still be easier/faster to type in a number as opposed to a name on a phone. Even if the phone had a touchscreen keyboard, an on-screen numberpad would have larger buttons, and thus easier to type a number in quickly.
There is something you're missing here, yes. When the GP said "type in the barcode", he was actually referring to typing in the number that the machine-readable barcode represents.
Since this number is printed underneath the barcode, typing out this number is a HELL of a lot simpler than typing a name on a phone.
If you watch a movie with a friend, you're only play ONE copy of the movie. If you listen to music with a friend, again, only ONE copy of the music is playing.
If you play a game with a friend, you're playing TWO copies of the game. Assuming, of course, that you're not playing split-screen, or some such.
Bullshit. Steamworks doesn't do this kind of "hardware" lock.
If any game sold on Steam exhibits this kind of behavior, it is because the game uses an additional form of DRM. Use of additional DRM is a decision made by the publishers of the game, not Valve, and Valve doesn't use any additional DRM on ANY of the games in their own catalog.
In fact, the ENTIRE point of the article was Valve trying to convince other companies that they don't NEED additional DRM on Steam.
By "personalizing" each copy of the game for each gamer, it allows Valve to potentially make their games work COMPLETELY free of Steam. Copy the game folder onto a system without Steam, and the game will run fine, without the need for cracks. If a copy gets leaked, then they can determine who original purchased that copy.
Like I said, it's a decent game. I like Halo. What I dislike is all the "OMFG HALO IZ BEST GAM EVAR!!!!!111one" I keep hearing.
Halo was decent. Decent game play, decent story, decent controls. What Halo WASN'T was revolutionary, in any real way. Halo presented NOTHING that wasn't seen years earlier in a PC game. Hell, the original Half-Life had a better story, because at least in HL you had an idea WTF was going on at the beginning of the game without having to read any extra material.
In the end, the only remarkable thing about Halo was that it was the best console FPS of its time.
Hi there. I've played FPS on a PC since Wolf3d. Halo is decent, at best, for a PC FPS.
The reason it became so popular is because console players hadn't seen an FPS of that quality before.
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Pre-Steam versions of the original HL games don't need to be registered; you should be able install and play Blue Shift and Opposing Force without Steam. You just won't be able to update them beyond what patches were released prior to Steam being implemented.
Likewise, you should be able to install and play Team Fortress and Counter Strike, but since you can only connect to servers running the same version you are, it's kinda pointless, seeing as you won't be able to update beyond the pre-Steam patches.
The CPU time would come from the user's systems, not the server, so the site's owner wouldn't know anything unless the users tell 'em. And let's face it, even your average/. reader, when presented with Firefox/Opera/IE/whatever hogging their CPU time, would first assume that it's their browser's fault...
It'd probably take a good while before anyone pegged down the real problem...
Blu-spec CDs are just CDs. They hold no more data than a regular CD. The only difference is that the masters are made with a blue laser instead of the standard red laser, which supposedly lowers their error-rates.
Blu-spec CDs are nothing more than a marketing gimmick.
Anyone with any practical knowledge knows 2 things: 1. CDs are not a dead format, seeing as they still sell by the millions.
2. The average consumer knows nothing of Sony's evils. In fact, the Sony brand name has a good reputation outside of the tech-centric minority represent on/.
This isn't actually a new "physical media format". It's just a CD made with a blue laser instead of a red laser. They're still readable by any old CD player; the only difference is that they supposedly have a lower error rate.
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I doubt it.
http://steampowered.com/steamworks/
Pretty sure the rest of us don't want to hear about your hard-on for Spock...
It's not that the downloading is legal, 'cause it's not. It's that the penalties for downloading are NOTHING compared to the penalties for distributing.
How is having confidence in an unproven scientific theory any different that having faith in god?
This is the sentence that shows your misconceptions about science.
One does not have "confidence" in an unproven scientific theory. Unproven theories are tested and tested and REtested. If the theory is incorrect, it's rethought and revised. A theory is NEVER "trusted" until it has stood against rigor.
On the other hand, religion is trusted because, why, exactly? Because it's written in a book?
Religion and science is are two completely different beasts. Whereas religion is deeply personal and highly subjective, science is very much objective, and always reviewed by one's peers.
Evolution is a theory that has been around for some time now. MOUNTAINS of fossil evidence supports it. It has been examined time and time again, and the theories regarding the mechanics behind it have been revisited numerous times, as well. The only logical conclusion is that evolution is a fact; the evidence clearly shows it occurring, we just haven't quite figured out the specifics yet; at least not perfectly.
Also, re-read my first post. My problem is with those who can't reconcile their religious beliefs with science, not with religion in general. Science doesn't invalidate religion, and people who act like it does piss me off. If your "faith" isn't strong enough to survive basic science, then it isn't faith at all. It's ignorance. And calling that "faith" is an insult to anyone who holds true faith; one who can see that the mechanics of the universe doesn't threaten the existence of God, even if those mechanics DON'T match up with the literal reading of a book written thousands of years ago.
Putting theological doctrine to the test is all well and good when it is theologians that are involved in weighing the voodoo to see what fits and what doesn't.
Fixed that for ya.
Seriously, since when has religion been about evidence?
Faith is not sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la-la-la" so you don't hear thing that challenge your beliefs. If you want to cling to a literal interpretation of a document written by a primitive group of humans that wouldn't have understood even if God HAD tried to show them exactly how he made everything, go right ahead. Meanwhile, I'll be over here thinking of evolution as how I was created.
Probably should have put a little more in there...
Again, we're talking about WM-based phones, lacking QWERTY keyboards and barcode reading. Even considering that the UPC would be a little harder to remember, it would still be easier/faster to type in a number as opposed to a name on a phone. Even if the phone had a touchscreen keyboard, an on-screen numberpad would have larger buttons, and thus easier to type a number in quickly.
Come on, now, keep up. Theoboley was talking about getting this kind of thing on Windows Mobile based phones, most of which lack keyboards.
Wow, that's not even enough to get through DHCP...
There is something you're missing here, yes. When the GP said "type in the barcode", he was actually referring to typing in the number that the machine-readable barcode represents.
Since this number is printed underneath the barcode, typing out this number is a HELL of a lot simpler than typing a name on a phone.
So, you "suck" a lot, then?
...which is irrelevant to Steam, considering that it has a perfectly functional Offline Mode...
Your analogy is horrible.
If you watch a movie with a friend, you're only play ONE copy of the movie. If you listen to music with a friend, again, only ONE copy of the music is playing.
If you play a game with a friend, you're playing TWO copies of the game. Assuming, of course, that you're not playing split-screen, or some such.
Bullshit. Steamworks doesn't do this kind of "hardware" lock.
If any game sold on Steam exhibits this kind of behavior, it is because the game uses an additional form of DRM. Use of additional DRM is a decision made by the publishers of the game, not Valve, and Valve doesn't use any additional DRM on ANY of the games in their own catalog.
In fact, the ENTIRE point of the article was Valve trying to convince other companies that they don't NEED additional DRM on Steam.
By "personalizing" each copy of the game for each gamer, it allows Valve to potentially make their games work COMPLETELY free of Steam. Copy the game folder onto a system without Steam, and the game will run fine, without the need for cracks. If a copy gets leaked, then they can determine who original purchased that copy.
They're attacking routers with weak usernames and passwords, too, so Tomato is indeed vulnerable.
Like I said, it's a decent game. I like Halo. What I dislike is all the "OMFG HALO IZ BEST GAM EVAR!!!!!111one" I keep hearing.
Halo was decent. Decent game play, decent story, decent controls. What Halo WASN'T was revolutionary, in any real way. Halo presented NOTHING that wasn't seen years earlier in a PC game. Hell, the original Half-Life had a better story, because at least in HL you had an idea WTF was going on at the beginning of the game without having to read any extra material.
In the end, the only remarkable thing about Halo was that it was the best console FPS of its time.
Hi there. I've played FPS on a PC since Wolf3d. Halo is decent, at best, for a PC FPS.
The reason it became so popular is because console players hadn't seen an FPS of that quality before.
Pre-Steam versions of the original HL games don't need to be registered; you should be able install and play Blue Shift and Opposing Force without Steam. You just won't be able to update them beyond what patches were released prior to Steam being implemented.
Likewise, you should be able to install and play Team Fortress and Counter Strike, but since you can only connect to servers running the same version you are, it's kinda pointless, seeing as you won't be able to update beyond the pre-Steam patches.
The CPU time would come from the user's systems, not the server, so the site's owner wouldn't know anything unless the users tell 'em. And let's face it, even your average /. reader, when presented with Firefox/Opera/IE/whatever hogging their CPU time, would first assume that it's their browser's fault...
It'd probably take a good while before anyone pegged down the real problem...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidAKoreanPersonDie
Blu-spec CDs are just CDs. They hold no more data than a regular CD. The only difference is that the masters are made with a blue laser instead of the standard red laser, which supposedly lowers their error-rates.
Blu-spec CDs are nothing more than a marketing gimmick.
Anyone with any practical knowledge knows 2 things: 1. CDs are not a dead format, seeing as they still sell by the millions. /.
2. The average consumer knows nothing of Sony's evils. In fact, the Sony brand name has a good reputation outside of the tech-centric minority represent on
This isn't actually a new "physical media format". It's just a CD made with a blue laser instead of a red laser. They're still readable by any old CD player; the only difference is that they supposedly have a lower error rate.
see what i did there? i mixed some code in appropriately (= instead of is saves me one character)
Which you promptly wasted by explaining what a jackass you are...
But then executives couldn't milk all the cash they could without having to actually think!