It is more of a timeline of the company that ends at 2006. Although, if anyone is interested in a good account of Nintendo's history, check out the book Game Over: Press Start to Continue by David Sheff. It is a bit dated, and doesn't cover anything newer than the n64 (and that depends on when the copy you look at was produced) but it goes into great depth regarding Nintendo's history.
Yeah, but I doubt that Discovery accounts for enough of their revenue to be able to say "back off or we drop you." I also find it unlikely that they would be able to get enough other companies to group together to protect each other from this type of thing. Now if it was Wal-Mart on the other hand it might be a different story, but it isn't.
Out of curiosity, are you one of those people who refuses to vote, then proceeds to bitch about how everything is wrong with the government and takes any opportunity to tell people about your great political insights?
If the DRM in software was perfect, I wouldn't care. I don't care about stuff on Steam because Steam actually, for me, makes the product MORE valuable. The ability to just download my games instead of having to dig through tons of discs and manually install them is great. The Steam chat works nicely for talking to friends while playing a game (unless you try to use the voice chat). The convenience of not having to go to the store and hope that they have the game that I want.
All of those things make Steam great, and the fact that it also works as a form of DRM really doesn't bother me, because said DRM never screws my system up. I don't have weird random crashes due to the DRM. I don't have my PC's performance hobbled by it. It just works. Personally, I think that Steams greatest weakness is that it isn't available for other platforms (I have a Linux install for most tasks, and then a Wintendo install).
Really, Steam is the closest you are going to find to "perfect" DRM. The only thing is that a lot of DRM schemes are going to be designed in such a way as to make it difficult if not impossible to resell your games.
Yeah, well, if one of the services that you really care for starts getting funding cuts and as such can't perform it's job as well as it could before, what would you say then? Tax evasion amounts to stealing from everyone who is paying the full amount of their owed taxes, and saying that said theft is ok because it doesn't affect you is similar (in principle) to an arsonist saying that it is ok for him to burn down things randomly, because it doesn't affect him, even if the small fire he started burned down a neighborhood.
Loaded language?! Well, what do you expect from a tabloid? Fair and balanced? The big "reputable" news agency that seems to spout that off whenever they get the chance most assuredly isn't.
What? You only have to enter the code into Steam once, and after that it is entirely worthless. The game is registered to your Steam account, and next time you install it, all you have to do is log into Steam with your Steam account and then tell it to download the game. Now, lots of other companies have codes that you have to enter everytime you install the game, but Valve isn't one of them.
...seen the movie Frag? It was shown at Quakecon, and took a real good look at professional gaming. They covered this, they covered sponsors and tournament directors who would screw people insofar as their pay, and a hell of a lot more.
...with the Beijing Olympics. They are using Silverlight on the site for the streaming video. Out of curiosity, was the error reported the error given when one tries to use FF on Linux to view the streaming stuff, or does it pop that up when you try to view the stream in FF with Moonlight? The Olympics streaming video on the site refused to work even with a tested Moonlight install with me.
I have a little sister who was taught to use caps lock to type capital letters. Of course, the second I found out her teacher had foisted this "nugget" of a habit upon her, I immediately explained that she should use the shift key.
Actually, for me the lips were off. Most of the time they were fine, but sometimes they would get a little too wide, or their shape would be slightly off.
Some school districts in the US do so as well. Some only for use on tests, and some for general use in class. Generally they are the same model calculator that they recommend the student purchase.
Well, I have to agree with betterunixthanunix, in that none of their open source work "raises the bar." However, as you said, they do contribute actively, but merely contributing is not "raising the bar."
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It is more of a timeline of the company that ends at 2006. Although, if anyone is interested in a good account of Nintendo's history, check out the book Game Over: Press Start to Continue by David Sheff. It is a bit dated, and doesn't cover anything newer than the n64 (and that depends on when the copy you look at was produced) but it goes into great depth regarding Nintendo's history.
The big thing for me is that you can view (online at least) in Linux.
Yeah, but I doubt that Discovery accounts for enough of their revenue to be able to say "back off or we drop you." I also find it unlikely that they would be able to get enough other companies to group together to protect each other from this type of thing. Now if it was Wal-Mart on the other hand it might be a different story, but it isn't.
I thought it was VH1 (AKA the countdown channel).
Out of curiosity, are you one of those people who refuses to vote, then proceeds to bitch about how everything is wrong with the government and takes any opportunity to tell people about your great political insights?
If the DRM in software was perfect, I wouldn't care. I don't care about stuff on Steam because Steam actually, for me, makes the product MORE valuable. The ability to just download my games instead of having to dig through tons of discs and manually install them is great. The Steam chat works nicely for talking to friends while playing a game (unless you try to use the voice chat). The convenience of not having to go to the store and hope that they have the game that I want. All of those things make Steam great, and the fact that it also works as a form of DRM really doesn't bother me, because said DRM never screws my system up. I don't have weird random crashes due to the DRM. I don't have my PC's performance hobbled by it. It just works. Personally, I think that Steams greatest weakness is that it isn't available for other platforms (I have a Linux install for most tasks, and then a Wintendo install). Really, Steam is the closest you are going to find to "perfect" DRM. The only thing is that a lot of DRM schemes are going to be designed in such a way as to make it difficult if not impossible to resell your games.
Yeah, but they don't need to blame it on piracy for that to happen anyway, considering how much people love SecuROM.
Yeah, well, if one of the services that you really care for starts getting funding cuts and as such can't perform it's job as well as it could before, what would you say then? Tax evasion amounts to stealing from everyone who is paying the full amount of their owed taxes, and saying that said theft is ok because it doesn't affect you is similar (in principle) to an arsonist saying that it is ok for him to burn down things randomly, because it doesn't affect him, even if the small fire he started burned down a neighborhood.
My grandparents seem to have no issue with confusion with tabs, and I introduced them to tabbed browsing when new versions of Mozilla were coming out.
Loaded language?! Well, what do you expect from a tabloid? Fair and balanced? The big "reputable" news agency that seems to spout that off whenever they get the chance most assuredly isn't.
What? You only have to enter the code into Steam once, and after that it is entirely worthless. The game is registered to your Steam account, and next time you install it, all you have to do is log into Steam with your Steam account and then tell it to download the game. Now, lots of other companies have codes that you have to enter everytime you install the game, but Valve isn't one of them.
...seen the movie Frag? It was shown at Quakecon, and took a real good look at professional gaming. They covered this, they covered sponsors and tournament directors who would screw people insofar as their pay, and a hell of a lot more.
I wasn't asking why, I was asking if.
...with the Beijing Olympics. They are using Silverlight on the site for the streaming video. Out of curiosity, was the error reported the error given when one tries to use FF on Linux to view the streaming stuff, or does it pop that up when you try to view the stream in FF with Moonlight? The Olympics streaming video on the site refused to work even with a tested Moonlight install with me.
Actually, the OP was suggesting the opposite, that he didn't like it because, as far as he could see, it WASN'T on a per listen basis.
How do you know it is on a "by listen" basis?
I have a little sister who was taught to use caps lock to type capital letters. Of course, the second I found out her teacher had foisted this "nugget" of a habit upon her, I immediately explained that she should use the shift key.
Actually, for me the lips were off. Most of the time they were fine, but sometimes they would get a little too wide, or their shape would be slightly off.
Some school districts in the US do so as well. Some only for use on tests, and some for general use in class. Generally they are the same model calculator that they recommend the student purchase.
But McCain-ix is undeveloped, closed source abandonware.
Rickrollers should be forced to undergo and autopsy, be fed to fire ants, and then shot with bullets filled with pepper spray. In that order.
Well, I have to agree with betterunixthanunix, in that none of their open source work "raises the bar." However, as you said, they do contribute actively, but merely contributing is not "raising the bar."
Any proof that they work?
It is the US's fault that the ticket was so expensive how?
Tata Motors, the current owners of Jaguar Cars Limited, might be able to pull prior art on Apple there.