Yeah, but your kids only need to do it once, for something to go wrong. When your child say, leaves his room like its been hit by a bombshell, that can be undone. You can't undo pregnancies (and abortion is a rather horrible solution).
Maybe you have been living under a rock... or something. The point is that while every parent, or even a significant portion, may not be giving their life to a blackberry, it is indicative of a more disturbing trend. Too often parents simply through away their children's problems -- because they know best. Guess what? When you yap away on your phone while driving along the road (and using a hands free kit does not absolve you: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/03/10335 38725358.html), despite their protestations, what your really saying is:
"I don't care what you think, no matter how well intentioned -- or lo and behold -- reasoned it is, I want to risk your life, my life, and that hapless bystander walking along the street. Oh, and when I say I wish you were better behaved, what I really mean is that I wish you were a mindless automaton, doing everything I said."
Get a grip, and realize that your children are far smarter then you think, and they too, genuinely care for your and their own wellbeing.
Guess what I hate? Domineering parents who think that they could never go wrong, couldn't possibly be doing something reckless, but oh! How dare little Jimmy look at pictures of naked ladies on his computer. I've worked too hard at pretending to be a loving parent, so hard that I can't be a proper parent anymore.
But Comrade! What the party says is true, becomes reality.
And in this case it actually does, maths is not objective, but is purely something that we have created to quantify our environment. Apart from the fact that 2+2 has equaled four for a considerable period now, there is no reason, apart from our preexisting knowledge of maths (and hence inertia to change), that this could not be true.
You do realise that theres effectually very little difference between the two? And yes, writing a cross os virus is much harder then you seem to think.
Except, your more then likely to be making this case to a judge not a jury, and I doubt that they will be so easily swayed. Still, I don't think that this would help anyone else all that much, as I believe the GP was referring to copying/format-shifting DVDs
I think many of you are missing the entire point of upscaling. Almost every HD tv has a fixed number of dots, just like your LCD monitor. Try setting that down a bit in the resolution and whatch how much the image deteriotes. THATS why you upscale.
Of course they wont test it, per se. The american goverment will just 'happen' to enter a war with Iran/N. Korea, or whoever is in the axis of evil then (china?). A few bombs will be used and the goverment will just go "LALALALALALALA I can't hear you LALALALALALALALALA" ad naesum.
Nono! You got it all backwards!
You see its very simple. Little Johnny (aka Mr Howard), really, really likes Mr Bush. So, Mr Johnny decided that the best way to have 'in bed with bush' and his name in the same sentence was to simply copy the US. Tis sad really, on one hand he's bad for the country, and on the other, he really looks good in the cartoons. Oh, my can of beer, what should I do?
Actually this largely depends on the game, the level of development for it (even private (ie by the hacker for themselves) methods eventually make it to their respective public works sooner or later), and how much info about the gae is out there. For very popular games like AA there are times when there are tons of public (ie you and I can go and download and run) cheats out, then there will be an update and most (generally all) will be detected. Sometimes a whole way of making hacks (DX hooking gets blocked, but thats only after they make sure they wont block every cheat out there (money stream and all...)). Let me tell you this though, the online cheating community is HUGE. I would say one thousand people in total are browsing the main 2 web portals at any one time. With a size this large, you can only stop them for so long before they find a new way.
What let me get this straight, people really say "Yes, sir" to a manager?...
I always just tell him if its so important to fix the "damn server then do it you fucking self!", then I mutter "lazy shit" while he stalks away. Can't he see that I was obviously in AQ pwning some n00b AI boss? I mean, honestly, what do they think the're paying me for? To actually do work? Isn't that what those inbians, no idias... Oh! You get the point.
I have one word for you;
NOD32
Ok admitedly it doesn't have a spam filter (although it does scan for virii) or a firewall, however considering that right now it reports it as using, in all of its proccess, 19mb of physical memory and 16 of virtual (according to the windows task manager). And then for a fiewall one could use sygate or kiero (I'm not 100% about sygate but kiero is light).
This is complete and utter bullshit. You have obviously never used steam, or if you have, certainly not long enough to experience any of the 'problems' you list.
1. If its a multiplayer only/multiplayer component then yes. This is true of (almost) every other multiplayer game as well though.
2. No, in most cases you would just have to pay extra usage fees or simply have your connection capped at around 56k speeds (I find though that its actually faster then what one could expect from a 56k service (eg you get the maximum therotical limit). Even if it was not able to be used, you can click on the go into offline mode and play it like that. Of course, you can only play a single player game (maybe with bots on CS/DoD
3. Yes, but its cheaper then packaging a game and leaving a cut for the stores AND publishers (although this merely replaces the publisher tbh).
4. Well this is not completely true, I would like to see your cd drive compete with a gigabit connection (or higher). But for most people this would be true, however advances such as ADSL2+ could bring this into line. In any case, you still have to factor in the time from, "I am going to purchase xxx" to "I just started installing it". On an online distribution service like steam, this is a matter of minutes (easily under 10). With going to a physical brick and motar store it could be hours. Yes it could also be minutes for some people who live 10 minutes away and can just leave everything. But for most people, it would involve them having to finish up whatever they are doing, or obliged to do in the near future, then driving to a store 15+ minutes away. Find a park if its a shopping center/mall and walk to the store - 10+ minutes. Find the game, wait in line and purchase it - 5 minutes. Walk back to the car and drive home 20+ minutes. Thats 50+ minutes assuming a 15 minute travel time. And it might be hours before they could iniate the proccess in which time they could have downloaded the game to the point where they could start playing (steam does this). So no, it is quite likely to be faster, at least for the inital purchase of the game
5. Well one, this isn't blizzard;). Two, almost any online game with cd key authentication (almost all), could simply refuse to authenticate your cd key if you hadn't payed their new $x dollar fee. So this is in no way limited to steam/et all.
6. Again, not neccesarily. A online service like steam would likely by then have new games (even if the half-life series flops), and the others almost certainly would. This would mean they could continue to have that game in a back libary, disk space is cheap, and these games wouldn't need to be on many servers (low demand), and would most likely be smaller then there newer compatriots anyway. Also, you could probably use their offline mode ad-naseum.
7. Well they let you do this already, so it can hadly be that much of a problem:).
See, your post is nothing but FUD. Oh, who says it has to be windows anyway;), M$ Fanboy alert!!!
P.S. I use steam, and have bought games from it, but only after the release of HL2. It seems to be up 99.9+% of the time, and is only getting better.
You sir is the one that is being laughable. The private bittorrent scene exists to fill a niche, one where downloading is fast and releases are of a high quality. If there was no ratio system these private sites would quickly become little better then the public ones. If you don't like it, fine - go and play on your public trackers.
Well they did it with Safari, so why not with this? Microsoft is extremely unlikely to pick it up and run with it, and as is seen with safari - merging changes back into the original codebase is a difficuly proposition.
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Heck, with 11 lines of Perl, you could save the world!
Yeah, but your kids only need to do it once, for something to go wrong. When your child say, leaves his room like its been hit by a bombshell, that can be undone. You can't undo pregnancies (and abortion is a rather horrible solution).
You just HAD to invoke Godwin's law. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
Maybe you have been living under a rock ... or something. The point is that while every parent, or even a significant portion, may not be giving their life to a blackberry, it is indicative of a more disturbing trend. Too often parents simply through away their children's problems -- because they know best. Guess what? When you yap away on your phone while driving along the road (and using a hands free kit does not absolve you: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/03/10335 38725358.html), despite their protestations, what your really saying is:
"I don't care what you think, no matter how well intentioned -- or lo and behold -- reasoned it is, I want to risk your life, my life, and that hapless bystander walking along the street. Oh, and when I say I wish you were better behaved, what I really mean is that I wish you were a mindless automaton, doing everything I said."
Get a grip, and realize that your children are far smarter then you think, and they too, genuinely care for your and their own wellbeing.
Guess what I hate? Domineering parents who think that they could never go wrong, couldn't possibly be doing something reckless, but oh! How dare little Jimmy look at pictures of naked ladies on his computer. I've worked too hard at pretending to be a loving parent, so hard that I can't be a proper parent anymore.
But Comrade! What the party says is true, becomes reality. And in this case it actually does, maths is not objective, but is purely something that we have created to quantify our environment. Apart from the fact that 2+2 has equaled four for a considerable period now, there is no reason, apart from our preexisting knowledge of maths (and hence inertia to change), that this could not be true.
You do realise that theres effectually very little difference between the two? And yes, writing a cross os virus is much harder then you seem to think.
Except, your more then likely to be making this case to a judge not a jury, and I doubt that they will be so easily swayed. Still, I don't think that this would help anyone else all that much, as I believe the GP was referring to copying/format-shifting DVDs
But! Comrade, 2+2 IS 5!
Except that in a porn flick, sucking is good. So applying that to your post we get:
Is that why Doom3 pwned so much? I had wet dreams about it for a whole week!
I think many of you are missing the entire point of upscaling. Almost every HD tv has a fixed number of dots, just like your LCD monitor. Try setting that down a bit in the resolution and whatch how much the image deteriotes. THATS why you upscale.
Of course they wont test it, per se. The american goverment will just 'happen' to enter a war with Iran/N. Korea, or whoever is in the axis of evil then (china?). A few bombs will be used and the goverment will just go "LALALALALALALA I can't hear you LALALALALALALALALA" ad naesum.
You misspelled comrade, comrade!
Nono! You got it all backwards! You see its very simple. Little Johnny (aka Mr Howard), really, really likes Mr Bush. So, Mr Johnny decided that the best way to have 'in bed with bush' and his name in the same sentence was to simply copy the US. Tis sad really, on one hand he's bad for the country, and on the other, he really looks good in the cartoons. Oh, my can of beer, what should I do?
Actually this largely depends on the game, the level of development for it (even private (ie by the hacker for themselves) methods eventually make it to their respective public works sooner or later), and how much info about the gae is out there. For very popular games like AA there are times when there are tons of public (ie you and I can go and download and run) cheats out, then there will be an update and most (generally all) will be detected. Sometimes a whole way of making hacks (DX hooking gets blocked, but thats only after they make sure they wont block every cheat out there (money stream and all...)). Let me tell you this though, the online cheating community is HUGE. I would say one thousand people in total are browsing the main 2 web portals at any one time. With a size this large, you can only stop them for so long before they find a new way.
What let me get this straight, people really say "Yes, sir" to a manager? ...
... Oh! You get the point.
I always just tell him if its so important to fix the "damn server then do it you fucking self!", then I mutter "lazy shit" while he stalks away. Can't he see that I was obviously in AQ pwning some n00b AI boss? I mean, honestly, what do they think the're paying me for? To actually do work? Isn't that what those inbians, no idias
I have one word for you; NOD32 Ok admitedly it doesn't have a spam filter (although it does scan for virii) or a firewall, however considering that right now it reports it as using, in all of its proccess, 19mb of physical memory and 16 of virtual (according to the windows task manager). And then for a fiewall one could use sygate or kiero (I'm not 100% about sygate but kiero is light).
This is complete and utter bullshit. You have obviously never used steam, or if you have, certainly not long enough to experience any of the 'problems' you list.
;). Two, almost any online game with cd key authentication (almost all), could simply refuse to authenticate your cd key if you hadn't payed their new $x dollar fee. So this is in no way limited to steam/et all.
:).
;), M$ Fanboy alert!!!
1. If its a multiplayer only/multiplayer component then yes. This is true of (almost) every other multiplayer game as well though.
2. No, in most cases you would just have to pay extra usage fees or simply have your connection capped at around 56k speeds (I find though that its actually faster then what one could expect from a 56k service (eg you get the maximum therotical limit). Even if it was not able to be used, you can click on the go into offline mode and play it like that. Of course, you can only play a single player game (maybe with bots on CS/DoD
3. Yes, but its cheaper then packaging a game and leaving a cut for the stores AND publishers (although this merely replaces the publisher tbh).
4. Well this is not completely true, I would like to see your cd drive compete with a gigabit connection (or higher). But for most people this would be true, however advances such as ADSL2+ could bring this into line. In any case, you still have to factor in the time from, "I am going to purchase xxx" to "I just started installing it". On an online distribution service like steam, this is a matter of minutes (easily under 10). With going to a physical brick and motar store it could be hours. Yes it could also be minutes for some people who live 10 minutes away and can just leave everything. But for most people, it would involve them having to finish up whatever they are doing, or obliged to do in the near future, then driving to a store 15+ minutes away. Find a park if its a shopping center/mall and walk to the store - 10+ minutes. Find the game, wait in line and purchase it - 5 minutes. Walk back to the car and drive home 20+ minutes. Thats 50+ minutes assuming a 15 minute travel time. And it might be hours before they could iniate the proccess in which time they could have downloaded the game to the point where they could start playing (steam does this). So no, it is quite likely to be faster, at least for the inital purchase of the game
5. Well one, this isn't blizzard
6. Again, not neccesarily. A online service like steam would likely by then have new games (even if the half-life series flops), and the others almost certainly would. This would mean they could continue to have that game in a back libary, disk space is cheap, and these games wouldn't need to be on many servers (low demand), and would most likely be smaller then there newer compatriots anyway. Also, you could probably use their offline mode ad-naseum.
7. Well they let you do this already, so it can hadly be that much of a problem
See, your post is nothing but FUD. Oh, who says it has to be windows anyway
P.S. I use steam, and have bought games from it, but only after the release of HL2. It seems to be up 99.9+% of the time, and is only getting better.
You sir is the one that is being laughable. The private bittorrent scene exists to fill a niche, one where downloading is fast and releases are of a high quality. If there was no ratio system these private sites would quickly become little better then the public ones. If you don't like it, fine - go and play on your public trackers.
Well they did it with Safari, so why not with this? Microsoft is extremely unlikely to pick it up and run with it, and as is seen with safari - merging changes back into the original codebase is a difficuly proposition.