Actually, from what I can tell, it looks to me like those footnotes refer to people who've ALREADY purchased those expansions. I imagine that once the F2P goes live, you'll be able to buy the expansion's content piecemeal, but those who've already bought the full expansions automatically have all the pieces, even if they revert to a Premium account.
"Drag them as far down in the gutter as they will allow" implies a HELL of a lot more than sex, and is extreme enough of a comment to be teaching children that, NO, I don't think the parent was quick to judge at all. Not to mention the fact the the GP made the statement in a non-sexual context, making your "need to procreate" argument completely irrelevant to begin with.
You should be able to blacklist people and then never have to play with them again.
On XBox Live you can "avoid" specific players, and it won't pick a game with them in it when you jump in a random game. I'm not sure if it will prevent them from being placed in a game you're already in, but hey, at least it's halfway there.
Also, you can always mute the little racist bastard...
The parent stated that there was some level of openness when the system first launched, and THEN Microsoft "monetized" it. The reality is that it STARTED "monetized", and free features were added years later when the 360 launched.
The complete opposite of the truth is NOT a "trivial mistake".
Hi! You're full of shit, AND lack reading comprehension.
When I said "when Live first launched", meant the original XBox version. On the original XBox, you either subscribed and got all the features, or you didn't, and got none of them. No Silver, no Gold, just subscribers.
As to why I say you're full of shit, it's because Silver accounts STILL don't have access to online multiplayer. Couch multiplayer, yes, ability to buy stuff off of XBLA, yes, online multiplayer, NO. The only exceptions have ever been the occasional free weekend, and FFXI, on account of it requiring a separate subscription fee. There was NO change to this, in 2008 or any other year.
You can find a table with an accurate comparison between Silver and Gold accounts here. If you doubt Wikipedia's accuracy, try Microsoft's list. You'll notice neither list includes online multiplayer on the Silver tier.
I should probably add to that, the original Live was NEVER, at any point, FREE. If you wanted to play online with an original XBox, you had to either pay, or use tunneling software software like XBConnect or X-Link.
You're full of shit. When Live first launched, there was no Silver and Gold, only subscribers. The Silver and Gold levels weren't introduced until the 360 launched in 2006, and you have NEVER been able to play online with a Silver subscription, outside of a promo weekend deal.
Considering that the 32bit and 64bit versions have exactly the same price, there's NO reason to load Win7 32bit on a new system that has an x64 proc in it. Upgrades, of course, are another story.
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Do they have a point?
No.
They have a shitty infrastructure.
More accurately, it's like building a gun that can't shoot, because in certain situations that might be illegal.
In regards to his signature, I'm pretty sure Tim will be upset that he's being sent to jail because of what I download...
put a valid DHCP device on output port 1 (perhaps a standard monitor)
I haven't seen many "standard monitors" with network connections, let alone support Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol...
Ah, but where's the fun in that?
Truth be told, the keys simply ended up falling in the bag, and I failed to notice when I put the left-overs in the fridge.
It's more a store fighting shoplifting by tracking down people they think might be shoplifters and setting fire to their cars.
And yet if someone actually did that, everybody would be in agreement that it's deplorable.
There is a very good reason vigilantism is illegal.
Strangely, no drugs were involved in that story...
I know someone who found it in the fridge... ;)
Amusingly enough, I found my keys there once.
In a Taco Bell bag.
Cash is like dakka, and as the orcs say, "Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka."
Too bad for Leibniz independent invention doesn't mean shit in patent law...
Makes you wish /. had a "-1 Full of Crap" mod...
The "full of crap" here is that Adblock can and will make Firefox to simply not request filtered content.
You're kidding me, right? Surely your reading comprehension can't be THAT horrible.
The creators of the mod were hired by Valve, and they've helped turn it into a stand-alone game running on the Source engine.
First bolded text shows, that YES, they were paid, second bolded shows that it's running on Source, NOT the Unreal engine.
I know it's bad form to read the article, but not reading the SUMMARY? The IP address accessing the account is in another STATE.
And I want fifty million dollars in small, non-sequential bills. Do I need to say more?
Actually, from what I can tell, it looks to me like those footnotes refer to people who've ALREADY purchased those expansions. I imagine that once the F2P goes live, you'll be able to buy the expansion's content piecemeal, but those who've already bought the full expansions automatically have all the pieces, even if they revert to a Premium account.
"Drag them as far down in the gutter as they will allow" implies a HELL of a lot more than sex, and is extreme enough of a comment to be teaching children that, NO, I don't think the parent was quick to judge at all. Not to mention the fact the the GP made the statement in a non-sexual context, making your "need to procreate" argument completely irrelevant to begin with.
I would think that a bri... paid-for review would score a little higher than a 7/10...
You should be able to blacklist people and then never have to play with them again.
On XBox Live you can "avoid" specific players, and it won't pick a game with them in it when you jump in a random game. I'm not sure if it will prevent them from being placed in a game you're already in, but hey, at least it's halfway there.
Also, you can always mute the little racist bastard...
It didn't fit into the moderator's world view, so it clearly MUST be a troll.
I'm not sure who this "your" you're referring to is, but it sure as hell isn't more powerful than MY PC.
The parent stated that there was some level of openness when the system first launched, and THEN Microsoft "monetized" it. The reality is that it STARTED "monetized", and free features were added years later when the 360 launched.
The complete opposite of the truth is NOT a "trivial mistake".
Hi! You're full of shit, AND lack reading comprehension.
When I said "when Live first launched", meant the original XBox version. On the original XBox, you either subscribed and got all the features, or you didn't, and got none of them. No Silver, no Gold, just subscribers.
As to why I say you're full of shit, it's because Silver accounts STILL don't have access to online multiplayer. Couch multiplayer, yes, ability to buy stuff off of XBLA, yes, online multiplayer, NO. The only exceptions have ever been the occasional free weekend, and FFXI, on account of it requiring a separate subscription fee. There was NO change to this, in 2008 or any other year.
You can find a table with an accurate comparison between Silver and Gold accounts here. If you doubt Wikipedia's accuracy, try Microsoft's list. You'll notice neither list includes online multiplayer on the Silver tier.
I should probably add to that, the original Live was NEVER, at any point, FREE. If you wanted to play online with an original XBox, you had to either pay, or use tunneling software software like XBConnect or X-Link.
You're full of shit. When Live first launched, there was no Silver and Gold, only subscribers. The Silver and Gold levels weren't introduced until the 360 launched in 2006, and you have NEVER been able to play online with a Silver subscription, outside of a promo weekend deal.
Considering that the 32bit and 64bit versions have exactly the same price, there's NO reason to load Win7 32bit on a new system that has an x64 proc in it. Upgrades, of course, are another story.