This was 1994 and in 1994 CD-Burners were a luxury. Of all my friends I was the first to get a CD-Burner, and that was in 2000 and the top of the line burner cost over $200 and the blank disks were about a $1 a piece at that point.
And yes there was copy protection back in the 80s and 90s but some of it was not like today. They used to make floppies that couldn't be copied by purposely making bad sectors, so when the disk was copied the bad sectors would mess with the copy process. The original Monkey Island came with a paper spin-wheel that you had to align correctly according to the start-up screen and it would give you a number to enter. X-Wing and Tie Fighter had manuals that each page had a certain code that you had to look up. Other games asked you questions that could only be answered by reading the actual manual.
These were creative solutions that although easily bypassed were still better approaches then the crap they dish out today.
You forgot the other aspects of Doom. This was one of the two games(Doom, Mortal Kombat) labeled by government officials at the time to be the root cause of increase in teen violence, drugs and all that bull.
Getting your hands on a copy of either of Doom or Mortal Kombat at the age of 8 was like getting your hands on a copy of Playboy at 13.
My father happened to pick up the shareware copy of Doom for us. I was considered a king at the age of 8. A year later my friends older brother managed to get his hands on Doom 2. You cant recreate this, now a days you just go online and download an EXE. Back then if you had no source of income you had to find someone who just happened to have a source for the game.
Oh and lets not forget. Back then when a game didn't have the minimum requirements, it wouldn't even load. So even if you got your hands on a copy, you still needed to figure out how to get the damn thing to run. We waited 8 weeks for my neighbor to make us a boot disk to run Doom. Something today I could do in 10 minutes, I patiently waited 8 weeks for a boot disk that was capable of loading C:, a CD drive, and Sound with just enough memory to run Doom.
From the age of 8 to 12, I had to find sources for Wolfenstein, Doom, Doom 2, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem, Quake, and Shadow Warrior. By 1997 most game magazines came with CD's packed with Demos so the fun in waiting and imagining what the game was like were over.
We were a genetically engineered organism designed to evolve to a certain point but we had inherit flaws. This flaw would then eventually lead to us killing the destroying the planet or ourselves before we could effectively escape to another world.
The primary feature of the phone is flawed. All they have to say is they made a mistake. The majority of this press conference was sugar coating a flaw which was probably known after the phones were through the manufacturing process.
You lived though. You went outside the box and tried something else. A lot of people never do this. You may have not liked it after a while but you understand whats on the other side.
Yeah there is. To play against people in the same room you need to go through Battle.net; if its down then you cant play despite being attached to the same local network.
There were no plans in place for something like this because something like this was never suppose to happen. This isn't Obama demonstrating that he cant act in an emergency this was a scenario that was supposed to be prevented.
Unfortunately it appears that BP cut a lot of corners with required prevention methods. And the only thing that will stop the oil flow is a relief well and we don't require those to be drilled at the same time as the primary well.
Why don't you write back to them that you will stop developing for Apple products? Then write an article on your website about how you cant provide an Apple solution to your users because Apple wont allow it.
At this point I would just stop working on the application. You can give away a Zune HD but not an Apple product? This is just ridiculous, its like Apple is just messing with you to see your reaction or to see if you will be a sucker and continue to develop for them.
Not sure this is the reason for cell phone bans but as a result I don't have to hear the person next to me or somewhere in the cabin talk on the phone the whole flight.
Penumbra is just awesome. Walking around dark corridors with little eyes looking at you from the distant dark and once that happens its already too late.
Like when my high school would dish out detentions to those who would get into fights after school hours and off school property. The schools defense was that school property was anywhere you walked from the time you left school until you arrived at home.
Even if Apple makes the majority of profit on the hardware the software is still part of the business plan. It might not be very profitable today but several years from now it could be and they want as little threats to it as possible as it grows, and flash is a major threat.
Oh they care alright. They care when it hurts their pockets. When people cant afford their house anymore, cant afford to feed their family, cant afford clothing, then they start to care. If they can afford all that and live they could care less.
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This was 1994 and in 1994 CD-Burners were a luxury. Of all my friends I was the first to get a CD-Burner, and that was in 2000 and the top of the line burner cost over $200 and the blank disks were about a $1 a piece at that point.
And yes there was copy protection back in the 80s and 90s but some of it was not like today. They used to make floppies that couldn't be copied by purposely making bad sectors, so when the disk was copied the bad sectors would mess with the copy process. The original Monkey Island came with a paper spin-wheel that you had to align correctly according to the start-up screen and it would give you a number to enter. X-Wing and Tie Fighter had manuals that each page had a certain code that you had to look up. Other games asked you questions that could only be answered by reading the actual manual.
These were creative solutions that although easily bypassed were still better approaches then the crap they dish out today.
You forgot the other aspects of Doom. This was one of the two games(Doom, Mortal Kombat) labeled by government officials at the time to be the root cause of increase in teen violence, drugs and all that bull.
Getting your hands on a copy of either of Doom or Mortal Kombat at the age of 8 was like getting your hands on a copy of Playboy at 13.
My father happened to pick up the shareware copy of Doom for us. I was considered a king at the age of 8. A year later my friends older brother managed to get his hands on Doom 2. You cant recreate this, now a days you just go online and download an EXE. Back then if you had no source of income you had to find someone who just happened to have a source for the game.
Oh and lets not forget. Back then when a game didn't have the minimum requirements, it wouldn't even load. So even if you got your hands on a copy, you still needed to figure out how to get the damn thing to run. We waited 8 weeks for my neighbor to make us a boot disk to run Doom. Something today I could do in 10 minutes, I patiently waited 8 weeks for a boot disk that was capable of loading C:, a CD drive, and Sound with just enough memory to run Doom.
From the age of 8 to 12, I had to find sources for Wolfenstein, Doom, Doom 2, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem, Quake, and Shadow Warrior. By 1997 most game magazines came with CD's packed with Demos so the fun in waiting and imagining what the game was like were over.
What if Earth is really a large petri dish?
We were a genetically engineered organism designed to evolve to a certain point but we had inherit flaws. This flaw would then eventually lead to us killing the destroying the planet or ourselves before we could effectively escape to another world.
Technically there are no requirements to be a chief justice.
Damn hipster with his butler and iPad.
Make it legal and you eliminate dealing with regular users dealing with court costs, loss of work, etc, etc.
Then you tax it like cigarettes and finally put restrictions on such like we do alcohol.
So now you take something that you have been spending money on to fight with no profit in return and turn it into some profitable.
No, it's about pointing out media sensationalism.
The primary feature of the phone is flawed. All they have to say is they made a mistake. The majority of this press conference was sugar coating a flaw which was probably known after the phones were through the manufacturing process.
You lived though. You went outside the box and tried something else. A lot of people never do this. You may have not liked it after a while but you understand whats on the other side.
Yeah there is. To play against people in the same room you need to go through Battle.net; if its down then you cant play despite being attached to the same local network.
I say we vote them ALL out and start over.
No, what should be done first is set term limits on congress seats. Its ridiculous that we have elected officials in the same seat for so many years.
From what I read Obama didn't take contributions from BP, but he did take contributions from employees of BP.
There were no plans in place for something like this because something like this was never suppose to happen. This isn't Obama demonstrating that he cant act in an emergency this was a scenario that was supposed to be prevented.
Unfortunately it appears that BP cut a lot of corners with required prevention methods. And the only thing that will stop the oil flow is a relief well and we don't require those to be drilled at the same time as the primary well.
Do they really think that people want to carry a separate portable gaming device, media player, and pda or smart phone in this day and age?
Yes, and 130 million DS owners prove it.
They should have skipped Warhammer and gone straight to Warhammer 40000 which is currently being. Warhammer was just WoW with a different face on.
Why don't you write back to them that you will stop developing for Apple products? Then write an article on your website about how you cant provide an Apple solution to your users because Apple wont allow it.
At this point I would just stop working on the application. You can give away a Zune HD but not an Apple product? This is just ridiculous, its like Apple is just messing with you to see your reaction or to see if you will be a sucker and continue to develop for them.
Not sure this is the reason for cell phone bans but as a result I don't have to hear the person next to me or somewhere in the cabin talk on the phone the whole flight.
Lets just hope Michael Bay doesn't read this story.
From my understanding of the $75 million cap, if negligence can be proven that cap does not apply anymore.
Just Work, First Time.
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Intentional leaks by Apple. The most likely in me eyes since it's now twice.
If these are intentional leaks then a police raid on a reporters home is an improper use public funded resources.
We are not seeing leaks, we are seeing both incompetence on Apples part and theft by those who report it.
Penumbra is just awesome. Walking around dark corridors with little eyes looking at you from the distant dark and once that happens its already too late.
Like when my high school would dish out detentions to those who would get into fights after school hours and off school property. The schools defense was that school property was anywhere you walked from the time you left school until you arrived at home.
Even if Apple makes the majority of profit on the hardware the software is still part of the business plan. It might not be very profitable today but several years from now it could be and they want as little threats to it as possible as it grows, and flash is a major threat.
...they seem not to care about any of it at all.
Oh they care alright. They care when it hurts their pockets. When people cant afford their house anymore, cant afford to feed their family, cant afford clothing, then they start to care. If they can afford all that and live they could care less.
No need to tie Velcro shoes.