If they don't do an official patch, then there will be homebrew patches. Something tells me that somewhere along the line, there'll be something all too sexual regarding zombies, and that's a lawsuit I don't wish to read about.
What ever happened to the Metroid Prime movie? I remember Nintendo Power said that there was a production team getting started on such a movie shortly after the game was released. That was the only thing I've ever heard of it.
I was really hoping that this would hurt the iPod a LOT more than a mere $100 million. I was hoping it'd crush the iPod, and let the world see what a real MP3 player is made of.
Sounds kinda like an article I read on/. about a year ago saying that Canada's going to test out a new system similar to this, but it will actually impair your ability to push down on the accelerator once you reach a certain speed.
Games that I can play online for free are the games I play more often. There's a reason why my WoW trial account never got upgraded, you know. It's the same reason I continue to play Counter Strike, Gunbound, Albatross18, StarCraft... etc. Free online play. It just makes sense.
Example please? I doubt that an untrained noob programmer is capable of replicating a $100+ commercial software package like MS Office or Photoshop or What-Have-You 3.0. Hell, there's a lot of brilliant people working on projects like OpenOffice and The Gimp, and they've been at it for years, and they still aren't quite there yet.
I've got a buddy I go to class with who, back in his day, wrote a program in VB that'd pull up all your network stastitics of a specific computer. A few years later, some company produced the exact same program (with just rearranged code) that was selling for about $40.
"The record companies are ALREADY screwing the artist up the ass, so it's okay if I do it too!" No.Think of it this way. The artist uses the record company to help sell their album. To get the word out. To get people interested in the artist. The record company, however, uses the artist to bring in assloads of cash for something that they only put a shiney ribbon around. If you download the music illegally, you're hurting the record company, and helping the artist. Musicians make very little money for CD sales anymore. They get more money from donations and selling stuff themselves than they get from the record company.
So, pirating music hurts the record company (which, in my opinion, they totally deserve), and helps the musician out even more than buying the CD. Sure, the artist might get a buck or two, per CD sale, but more people donwload music than buy it, and thusly, more people hear about the artist that way.
There's a SiD metal group called Machinae Supremacy that I've gotten really into lately. How'd I first hear about them? By grabbing random songs from a buddy on IRC. So, because of piracy, they got a new fan, who happened to enjoy the music so much that they actually went and bought the CD. Looks like piracy only brought these guys something good in the end.
Besides. Musicians should be doing it entirey for the music, anyway. Not the money.
Nope. Or at least, not run-of-the-mill CD-Rs sold in the United States. There's the "Music CD-Rs" that cost a lot more than "Data CD-Rs" and have the piracy levy built into the price, but nobody uses those.
Actually, the tax applies to both. The "Music" CDs are just a nametag added by the manufacturer, to try and trick a poor consumer into spending an extra buck or two. The tax still goes for both because of the fact that they're the exact same thing. Blank media that's perfect for piracy.
No, you probably won't. The courts aren't immune to common sense; if they prove that a computer was used for piracy and you own that computer, they're going to assume that you are responsible for that piracy unless you present a compelling case for why you are not.
I wouldn't even need a lawyer to explain to a judge in under five minutes how an IP address only identifies the person who's paid for the internet access, and how very possibly somebody could've parked their car outside my house and downloaded the files from my unprotected wireless router. Once the court understands how the network works, then it'll be blatantly obvious that there's no solid proof of who downloaded what. At this point, the RIAA has absolutely nothing against you, other than suspicion, which doesn't work as solid evidence in court.
Trust me. People have actually won court cases against the RIAA using the same method.
Nope. Blank CD media here in the US has a piracy tax added to it. Yeah, it's not much (and since I usually buy CDs in bulk, I get massive rebates, anyway), but it's still annoying to me that these corporations are this worried in stopping piracy that they'd hurt EVERYBODY who wants blnak media (even if it's a legit reason).
This is very true. I once linked to a website me and a friend were running in my sig, and after only a few hours of posting a couple comments, we'd hit over 200 unique visitors.
I agree. I believe that nobody should be able to "own" something that isn't physically there, like land, houses, or "stuff". Music, movies, and programs aren't "physical", and should be free, since all you really own is the name to an idea.
Well, yeah. For your case, it does hurt you. But then again, that's the risk you take being an indie developer. You simply don't have the "force" to do anything about people pirating your software.
Also, our of curiosity, what kind of software do you produce? Not that I'd want to pirate it, just curious what an indie developer puts together that people would actually want to steal. I mean, if it's good enough for people to want to steal, then maybe you should start thinking of bigger things.
Well, bandwidth is already overpriced. The technology costs pennies compared to what they're charging you for it. They're still making a profit charging $6.50, and you're getting an awesome deal in the process. Win-win situation, if you ask me.
This new political party is sure to cause a bit of panic all over the world, due to the extreme, overrated hype of piracy.
Not all piracy is a bad thing. I mean, software these days is seriously overpriced. You could teach yourself some very basic programming skills (Visual Basic, for instance), and create a program that'll do exactly what the $100+ equivilant does.
So of course people will pirate it. Why? Because it's rediculous to pay for something like that.
Then there's music. Just to let you know, piracy HARDLY hurts the musician. Considering that 90% of the sales go to the record company before the artist ever sees a penny, they're really not "losing" much at all.
Then again, sometimes piracy is a bad thing. Especially for the movie industry. Millions (if not billions) of dollars go into the making of a movie. While, yes, theater sales bring in tons of cash, DVD releases are also a huge factor in a movie's income. Downloading a movie hurts people a lot more than downloading music.
Piracy has become such an overrated "controversy" lately that it's unbarable. Look at the price of blank CDs. Did you know that you have to pay a "piracy tax" for these? Yep. All because some higher-ups think that an extra buck or two will help save a movie studio or a record company. It's batty. What if I just want to burn copies of pictures from my family vacation? Now I've gotta pay the MPAA and RIAA some extra cash for something that they don't deserve? Get real.
All these corporations think that they're helping people by attempting to foil piracy. Yes, they've got their hearts in the right places, but they're doing it all wrong. "Right track, wrong train" is a good saying for this. They really need to clean up their acts when suing people. I mean, they've gone so far as to sue old ladies who can barely turn their computer on, yet let huge pirates go unnoticed.
Why's this?
Because if they let big pirates continue doing their thing, then they get to keep on making more and more money with the "piracy taxes" and suing people left and right for WAY more than the material they've pirated is worth. They're letting people go to keep themselves in the game, which is horrible.
Also, just a little side note, to anybody who thinks the RIAA or MPAA might be knocking on your door. Go ahead and go to court, but bring up the fact that an IP address is not a person. Since your IP is the only log they have of the download (even if they have the MAC, that'll only ID a computer, not a single person), you'll win in court. And they'll lose out on a bunch of money for the court date, as well. Two-for-one, if you ask me. =D
There's Linux. Completely free (for the most part), and no ads. And with tons of different distros of Linux, it's not like you've got a narrow selection of free operating systems, either.
Interesting. I'm starting to wonder if, perhaps, the hardware on the machines I'm trying to use is too powerful. All this time I've been thinking that better specs would surely run it just fine, but maybe the game can't recognize the hardware properly because it's too new.
Has anybody actually been able to run this game? I've tried it on many different computers, with different specs that all meet the requirements listed on the site, yet every time it crashes when I try to run the EXE. On one of the machines here at class, however, it attempts to load and then crashes. Is there anybody out there who's actually played this game, or do I just have the worst luck in the world?
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"Yeah, it's a 10-incher, just like my cock."
The problem with that is that if everybody on /. bought their computers according to their penis size, you'd be seeing a lot more Palms out there.
I'll demand a refund if they pull this crap. I'm not paying them to load my face with advertisements.
I don't see Steal This Book on their list. I've been wanting to read it.
If they don't do an official patch, then there will be homebrew patches. Something tells me that somewhere along the line, there'll be something all too sexual regarding zombies, and that's a lawsuit I don't wish to read about.
What ever happened to the Metroid Prime movie? I remember Nintendo Power said that there was a production team getting started on such a movie shortly after the game was released. That was the only thing I've ever heard of it.
I was really hoping that this would hurt the iPod a LOT more than a mere $100 million. I was hoping it'd crush the iPod, and let the world see what a real MP3 player is made of.
The name is horrible. Sansa e280 doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as iPod.
Sounds kinda like an article I read on /. about a year ago saying that Canada's going to test out a new system similar to this, but it will actually impair your ability to push down on the accelerator once you reach a certain speed.
Unfortunately, though, it's going to be a pretty much barebones DVD. No special features, from what the article in Nintendo Power says about the DVD.
Dell laptops have been coming pre-equiped with timebomb batteries.
Games that I can play online for free are the games I play more often. There's a reason why my WoW trial account never got upgraded, you know. It's the same reason I continue to play Counter Strike, Gunbound, Albatross18, StarCraft... etc. Free online play. It just makes sense.
Example please? I doubt that an untrained noob programmer is capable of replicating a $100+ commercial software package like MS Office or Photoshop or What-Have-You 3.0. Hell, there's a lot of brilliant people working on projects like OpenOffice and The Gimp, and they've been at it for years, and they still aren't quite there yet.
I've got a buddy I go to class with who, back in his day, wrote a program in VB that'd pull up all your network stastitics of a specific computer. A few years later, some company produced the exact same program (with just rearranged code) that was selling for about $40.
"The record companies are ALREADY screwing the artist up the ass, so it's okay if I do it too!" No.Think of it this way. The artist uses the record company to help sell their album. To get the word out. To get people interested in the artist. The record company, however, uses the artist to bring in assloads of cash for something that they only put a shiney ribbon around. If you download the music illegally, you're hurting the record company, and helping the artist. Musicians make very little money for CD sales anymore. They get more money from donations and selling stuff themselves than they get from the record company.
So, pirating music hurts the record company (which, in my opinion, they totally deserve), and helps the musician out even more than buying the CD. Sure, the artist might get a buck or two, per CD sale, but more people donwload music than buy it, and thusly, more people hear about the artist that way.
There's a SiD metal group called Machinae Supremacy that I've gotten really into lately. How'd I first hear about them? By grabbing random songs from a buddy on IRC. So, because of piracy, they got a new fan, who happened to enjoy the music so much that they actually went and bought the CD. Looks like piracy only brought these guys something good in the end.
Besides. Musicians should be doing it entirey for the music, anyway. Not the money.
Nope. Or at least, not run-of-the-mill CD-Rs sold in the United States. There's the "Music CD-Rs" that cost a lot more than "Data CD-Rs" and have the piracy levy built into the price, but nobody uses those.
Actually, the tax applies to both. The "Music" CDs are just a nametag added by the manufacturer, to try and trick a poor consumer into spending an extra buck or two. The tax still goes for both because of the fact that they're the exact same thing. Blank media that's perfect for piracy.
No, you probably won't. The courts aren't immune to common sense; if they prove that a computer was used for piracy and you own that computer, they're going to assume that you are responsible for that piracy unless you present a compelling case for why you are not.
I wouldn't even need a lawyer to explain to a judge in under five minutes how an IP address only identifies the person who's paid for the internet access, and how very possibly somebody could've parked their car outside my house and downloaded the files from my unprotected wireless router. Once the court understands how the network works, then it'll be blatantly obvious that there's no solid proof of who downloaded what. At this point, the RIAA has absolutely nothing against you, other than suspicion, which doesn't work as solid evidence in court.
Trust me. People have actually won court cases against the RIAA using the same method.
Nope. Blank CD media here in the US has a piracy tax added to it. Yeah, it's not much (and since I usually buy CDs in bulk, I get massive rebates, anyway), but it's still annoying to me that these corporations are this worried in stopping piracy that they'd hurt EVERYBODY who wants blnak media (even if it's a legit reason).
This is very true. I once linked to a website me and a friend were running in my sig, and after only a few hours of posting a couple comments, we'd hit over 200 unique visitors.
I agree. I believe that nobody should be able to "own" something that isn't physically there, like land, houses, or "stuff". Music, movies, and programs aren't "physical", and should be free, since all you really own is the name to an idea.
Well, yeah. For your case, it does hurt you. But then again, that's the risk you take being an indie developer. You simply don't have the "force" to do anything about people pirating your software. Also, our of curiosity, what kind of software do you produce? Not that I'd want to pirate it, just curious what an indie developer puts together that people would actually want to steal. I mean, if it's good enough for people to want to steal, then maybe you should start thinking of bigger things.
Well, bandwidth is already overpriced. The technology costs pennies compared to what they're charging you for it. They're still making a profit charging $6.50, and you're getting an awesome deal in the process. Win-win situation, if you ask me.
This new political party is sure to cause a bit of panic all over the world, due to the extreme, overrated hype of piracy.
Not all piracy is a bad thing. I mean, software these days is seriously overpriced. You could teach yourself some very basic programming skills (Visual Basic, for instance), and create a program that'll do exactly what the $100+ equivilant does.
So of course people will pirate it. Why? Because it's rediculous to pay for something like that.
Then there's music. Just to let you know, piracy HARDLY hurts the musician. Considering that 90% of the sales go to the record company before the artist ever sees a penny, they're really not "losing" much at all.
Then again, sometimes piracy is a bad thing. Especially for the movie industry. Millions (if not billions) of dollars go into the making of a movie. While, yes, theater sales bring in tons of cash, DVD releases are also a huge factor in a movie's income. Downloading a movie hurts people a lot more than downloading music.
Piracy has become such an overrated "controversy" lately that it's unbarable. Look at the price of blank CDs. Did you know that you have to pay a "piracy tax" for these? Yep. All because some higher-ups think that an extra buck or two will help save a movie studio or a record company. It's batty. What if I just want to burn copies of pictures from my family vacation? Now I've gotta pay the MPAA and RIAA some extra cash for something that they don't deserve? Get real.
All these corporations think that they're helping people by attempting to foil piracy. Yes, they've got their hearts in the right places, but they're doing it all wrong. "Right track, wrong train" is a good saying for this. They really need to clean up their acts when suing people. I mean, they've gone so far as to sue old ladies who can barely turn their computer on, yet let huge pirates go unnoticed.
Why's this?
Because if they let big pirates continue doing their thing, then they get to keep on making more and more money with the "piracy taxes" and suing people left and right for WAY more than the material they've pirated is worth. They're letting people go to keep themselves in the game, which is horrible.
Also, just a little side note, to anybody who thinks the RIAA or MPAA might be knocking on your door. Go ahead and go to court, but bring up the fact that an IP address is not a person. Since your IP is the only log they have of the download (even if they have the MAC, that'll only ID a computer, not a single person), you'll win in court. And they'll lose out on a bunch of money for the court date, as well. Two-for-one, if you ask me. =D
That's bad when even EA says you suck at what you're doing.
There's Linux. Completely free (for the most part), and no ads. And with tons of different distros of Linux, it's not like you've got a narrow selection of free operating systems, either.
Firefox is open source. I'm sure someone'll hack the Real out of it and keep an up-to-date, Real-less version up for all to download.
This is totally a great business move on Mozi
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Interesting. I'm starting to wonder if, perhaps, the hardware on the machines I'm trying to use is too powerful. All this time I've been thinking that better specs would surely run it just fine, but maybe the game can't recognize the hardware properly because it's too new.
Has anybody actually been able to run this game? I've tried it on many different computers, with different specs that all meet the requirements listed on the site, yet every time it crashes when I try to run the EXE. On one of the machines here at class, however, it attempts to load and then crashes. Is there anybody out there who's actually played this game, or do I just have the worst luck in the world?
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