Wow, I had no idea what this "Photos Shop" thing was all about. Thanks, man! One complaint though- I had quite a bit of trouble figuring out what a "february" is, should've linked to that as well.
Yes, I may have fallen into that trap. If that is the case, all I am asking for is an example of someone who would actually, seriously need LAN. (And I don't mean the one guy on the planet who happens to not have internet)
If that's Blizzard's stated response, well, they are indeed douchebags for taking stupid measures to "solve" a stupid problem.
No it's not. No matter what processor you buy, unless you buy a new one every 3 months it will not be bleeding edge most of the time. By buying hypothetical more efficient, less powerful processors more frequently than hypothetical inefficient yet more powerful ones, you end up getting similar responsiveness overall with the same budget. That's your bonus. You don't rip yourself off by paying too much.
If you have money to burn and an obsession with 3 digit framerates, I guess what you say is true. In any case, I certainly don't.
Well if new units can break compatibility then they haven't made the expansions compatible at all, have they? And I believe their intention is to make them compatible.
Patching the units in is perfectly reasonable by the way, again they did it in DoW.
As for the link, well, first off these are different companies with different track records regarding respecting the customer. What's more, Ubisoft messes with single player too- I don't think Starcraft 2 phones home for *single player*. If it does, wow, screw you Blizzard.
However, as it is, all I can see is that they removed LAN, an unnecessary, obsolete, redundant feature and now everybody is making an awful lot of noise as if it's the end of the world. If you don't like the AC2 DRM, why not complain about AC2 first? Did Blizzard even explicitly state they removed LAN because it makes piracy easier?
I don't necessarily that wikimedia does not deserve donations, wouldn't donating to wikileaks do more good at this point, seeing as how their site has been down for some time now?
Unless I misunderstand, you can already play with people who bought all 3 campaigns even if you have bought only one. They don't even limit you to 1 race like Dawn of War did.
As for LAN, everyone seems to be upset about this but when Starcraft came out, people had 56k modems and seconds-long lag times. Nor was internet access almost-constant like it is now- you'd "connect to the internet" when you needed to use it.
It's hard to find a connection slow enough to seriously lag your game (unless you're downloading pr0n in the background, or playing on the server on the other side of the planet) nowadays. Honestly, I'm at a loss thinking of a situation where you'd absolutely have to use LAN. One is if you ARE pirating, but yeah. The other is the introducing people to the game angle, but in that case just pirate it and play on the cracked servers (which will doubtless be available within weeks of release and probably even this beta).
I understand your concern over principles and what not, but it's not like Blizzard took out single-player completely or something radical like that. You still can play multiplayer, but now you have to have an internet connection. Like I said, that would have been a bummer in the SC1 days, but when's the last time you saw a machine that can run SC2 and yet has no internet? Your complaint is frivolous and inconsequent.
Also, unless you actually install some fancy 3D mode software bing is just a crappier, horrendously slow, feature-poor Google maps. And the kicker is, 3D won't work on Chrome, so you're stuck with the crippled version. My first reflex after realising this was to try IE8 and for some reason half the interface failed to load until I installed MS's program.
Granted, it worked very smooth and sleek after I installed it, but then again, so does Google Earth if I'm gonna be installing stuff. And Google's map program has a flight simulator!
Moreover, -with an Android 1.6 device- the mobile Bing maps site is atrocious (although search seemed nice at first glance and I might even start using it in the future).
Now, the demonstration is very cool, and while it's kind of all been done it looks like bing put on quite a bit of polish and made everything seamless and well integrated and all. However, overlaying streaming videos is not what I, personally, would like most in my maps site. It's consistent feature set! Someone complained about the 3D view not being fully available in all US states, well, I live outside the US. Street view? Is that when you zoom in all the way, so you can see like bits of the alleys and stuff? I even know a few spots in my city where there's a 3D building or two put op on Google Earth. It's almost like in those marketing demos, where they subtly imply all that funky stuff is available everywhere!
Overlaying images is, quite frankly, worthless to me unless I can rely on it working in a vast majority of the places I'd want to use it in.
Seriously, a month ago I tried to use Google's directions for a 5-kilometer walk to a park, in the middle of my country's largest city. I was directed into an under-construction, closed off tunnel. I realise bells and whistles make the audience salivate at presentations, but I'd salivate 10 times more if (say) a Google guy went on stage, said "we have now implemented Street View for at least 10 major cities in each of 150 countries around the globe." and left. New features and innovation is all nice and good, but sometimes you gotta finish one project before starting a new one. Or in this case, about fifty.
How is it pointless? It's one of the most important things to consider for me. How else am I supposed to estimate if what I pay for the processor is worth it?
Somebody would miss their newsletter for a week, then the thing would be all over the news. Everyone would just start specifically whitelisting their templated mails when subscribing, meanwhile you get your ass handed to you in court for dishonest business practices.
Actually, open wifi is still better in this case. If it was a widely known/accepted thing that people use others' wifi, you are no longer liable for what your IP send or receives, period. You wanna sue me for warez my router downloaded? Prove it was me and not my neighbor, because, you know, it could have been. You can't? Then fuck off.
You should be saying holy shit here, because this means the ISP, or anyone monitoring your connection for that matter, completely loses the ability to use it against you. Basically, absolute freedom of expression, guaranteed by private citizens' desire to get free wifi wherever they go.
ISPs get plausible deniability for their customers, why not access point providers?
I think the hotspots, as in the sense you mentioned, "secure" it so those darn freeloaders won't steal their bandwidth. This is pretty annoying. Yesterday I needed to check Google Maps, so I walked in a coffee shop and to my "delight" found they had a WEP password, which turned out to be their phone number, which the waiter told me when I asked. What the hell? Security my ass, it's like the argument for locking your front door: It won't start (hackers|thieves), but will give the message to people that what's (on the network|inside) is your property. They are quite clearly trying to stop people from using their internet without buying anything, which strikes me as very rude.
Who wants to wear an extra pair of glasses just to watch TV?
I do. Avatar was fun, what's more if they make 3D LCD TVs, they'll make monitors, which could make for some pretty cool stuff, especially if the industry goes with passive glasses.
If you don't like it, no one's forcing you to buy it.
The data gets sold and resold and eventually spills out all over the place, we end up with everybody's whole life indexed and freely, easily accessible. Insurance companies, business, intelligence organizations, law enforcement and so on adapt accordingly and everybody realizes how much screwed they are when the full implications of utter abolition of their privacy sink in. From there, it depends. In the best case, a paranoid minority may have managed to keep at least some of their stuff private, and develop methods to do so, which can then be used by the rest of the public to fix the mess. Or possibly it'll just be too late by the time people realize they need to think about what they stick on their MySpace.
Right, because the controller recoils realistically and weighs several kilograms to simulate actual weapon weight. Sorry to burst your bubble, but they'll cram in auto aim until enough of the player base can aim just as effortlessly. There's lots of mouse/keyboard games which make aiming require what I guess you might call skill, no one plays them.
Of course, you're just bitter because somebody kicked your ass last time you played an FPS.
Why do people write like this, as if what they are saying is some sort of poetry when they are only ranting about Big Brother?
I'd understand if they kept meter or at least rhyme but there is no rhyme nor reason to it, if you'll excuse the pun.
And since I'm being pedantic anyway why has the expression PS not died yet? You are not writing with expensive Chinese ink on expensive paper, you can just go back and add your afterthoughts where it's appropriate, you know.
By the way, could it be a problem, with my browser? I doubt it.
Really? This is ridiculous. He can push some buttons very fast? Gimme a break. Running the mile involves a very strict diet and exercise regimen. I don't really care for sports, outside health-oriented exercise, but running the mile is NOT the same as typing very fast. It is as much an accomplishment as eating the most hotdogs.
Also, your post has a logical fallacy. Assuming most accomplishments are arbitrary (I don't see why they would be, but whatever), so what? Most women you'd want to sleep with have two legs. So do chimps. Do you see my point?
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Wow, I had no idea what this "Photos Shop" thing was all about. Thanks, man! One complaint though- I had quite a bit of trouble figuring out what a "february" is, should've linked to that as well.
Yes, I may have fallen into that trap. If that is the case, all I am asking for is an example of someone who would actually, seriously need LAN. (And I don't mean the one guy on the planet who happens to not have internet)
If that's Blizzard's stated response, well, they are indeed douchebags for taking stupid measures to "solve" a stupid problem.
No it's not. No matter what processor you buy, unless you buy a new one every 3 months it will not be bleeding edge most of the time. By buying hypothetical more efficient, less powerful processors more frequently than hypothetical inefficient yet more powerful ones, you end up getting similar responsiveness overall with the same budget. That's your bonus. You don't rip yourself off by paying too much.
If you have money to burn and an obsession with 3 digit framerates, I guess what you say is true. In any case, I certainly don't.
Well if new units can break compatibility then they haven't made the expansions compatible at all, have they? And I believe their intention is to make them compatible.
Patching the units in is perfectly reasonable by the way, again they did it in DoW.
As for the link, well, first off these are different companies with different track records regarding respecting the customer. What's more, Ubisoft messes with single player too- I don't think Starcraft 2 phones home for *single player*. If it does, wow, screw you Blizzard.
However, as it is, all I can see is that they removed LAN, an unnecessary, obsolete, redundant feature and now everybody is making an awful lot of noise as if it's the end of the world. If you don't like the AC2 DRM, why not complain about AC2 first? Did Blizzard even explicitly state they removed LAN because it makes piracy easier?
I don't necessarily that wikimedia does not deserve donations, wouldn't donating to wikileaks do more good at this point, seeing as how their site has been down for some time now?
Unless I misunderstand, you can already play with people who bought all 3 campaigns even if you have bought only one. They don't even limit you to 1 race like Dawn of War did.
As for LAN, everyone seems to be upset about this but when Starcraft came out, people had 56k modems and seconds-long lag times. Nor was internet access almost-constant like it is now- you'd "connect to the internet" when you needed to use it.
It's hard to find a connection slow enough to seriously lag your game (unless you're downloading pr0n in the background, or playing on the server on the other side of the planet) nowadays. Honestly, I'm at a loss thinking of a situation where you'd absolutely have to use LAN. One is if you ARE pirating, but yeah. The other is the introducing people to the game angle, but in that case just pirate it and play on the cracked servers (which will doubtless be available within weeks of release and probably even this beta).
I understand your concern over principles and what not, but it's not like Blizzard took out single-player completely or something radical like that. You still can play multiplayer, but now you have to have an internet connection. Like I said, that would have been a bummer in the SC1 days, but when's the last time you saw a machine that can run SC2 and yet has no internet? Your complaint is frivolous and inconsequent.
Also, unless you actually install some fancy 3D mode software bing is just a crappier, horrendously slow, feature-poor Google maps. And the kicker is, 3D won't work on Chrome, so you're stuck with the crippled version. My first reflex after realising this was to try IE8 and for some reason half the interface failed to load until I installed MS's program.
Granted, it worked very smooth and sleek after I installed it, but then again, so does Google Earth if I'm gonna be installing stuff. And Google's map program has a flight simulator!
Moreover, -with an Android 1.6 device- the mobile Bing maps site is atrocious (although search seemed nice at first glance and I might even start using it in the future).
Now, the demonstration is very cool, and while it's kind of all been done it looks like bing put on quite a bit of polish and made everything seamless and well integrated and all. However, overlaying streaming videos is not what I, personally, would like most in my maps site. It's consistent feature set! Someone complained about the 3D view not being fully available in all US states, well, I live outside the US. Street view? Is that when you zoom in all the way, so you can see like bits of the alleys and stuff? I even know a few spots in my city where there's a 3D building or two put op on Google Earth. It's almost like in those marketing demos, where they subtly imply all that funky stuff is available everywhere!
Overlaying images is, quite frankly, worthless to me unless I can rely on it working in a vast majority of the places I'd want to use it in.
Seriously, a month ago I tried to use Google's directions for a 5-kilometer walk to a park, in the middle of my country's largest city. I was directed into an under-construction, closed off tunnel. I realise bells and whistles make the audience salivate at presentations, but I'd salivate 10 times more if (say) a Google guy went on stage, said "we have now implemented Street View for at least 10 major cities in each of 150 countries around the globe." and left. New features and innovation is all nice and good, but sometimes you gotta finish one project before starting a new one. Or in this case, about fifty.
Also available for chrome, apparently. Thanks, this is super useful.
How is it pointless? It's one of the most important things to consider for me. How else am I supposed to estimate if what I pay for the processor is worth it?
This is why you don't want "free" computers from the government, (...) so you can buy your own computer...
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Way to fail reading comprehension, asshat. Who the hell modded you 5?
Somebody would miss their newsletter for a week, then the thing would be all over the news. Everyone would just start specifically whitelisting their templated mails when subscribing, meanwhile you get your ass handed to you in court for dishonest business practices.
So what would be an easy way to circumvent this?
So if this actually works, and makes the expenses that low, what happens to reliability of camera recordings and the like for legal purposes?
Actually, open wifi is still better in this case. If it was a widely known/accepted thing that people use others' wifi, you are no longer liable for what your IP send or receives, period. You wanna sue me for warez my router downloaded? Prove it was me and not my neighbor, because, you know, it could have been. You can't? Then fuck off.
You should be saying holy shit here, because this means the ISP, or anyone monitoring your connection for that matter, completely loses the ability to use it against you. Basically, absolute freedom of expression, guaranteed by private citizens' desire to get free wifi wherever they go.
ISPs get plausible deniability for their customers, why not access point providers?
I think the hotspots, as in the sense you mentioned, "secure" it so those darn freeloaders won't steal their bandwidth. This is pretty annoying. Yesterday I needed to check Google Maps, so I walked in a coffee shop and to my "delight" found they had a WEP password, which turned out to be their phone number, which the waiter told me when I asked. What the hell? Security my ass, it's like the argument for locking your front door: It won't start (hackers|thieves), but will give the message to people that what's (on the network|inside) is your property. They are quite clearly trying to stop people from using their internet without buying anything, which strikes me as very rude.
Phones already control software through the accelerometer data- namely switching between portrait and landscape when you turn the phone sideways.
Besides, I like the idea, but the reason you want it is finger smudging? Wash your hands and stop picking your nose.
Who wants to wear an extra pair of glasses just to watch TV?
I do. Avatar was fun, what's more if they make 3D LCD TVs, they'll make monitors, which could make for some pretty cool stuff, especially if the industry goes with passive glasses.
If you don't like it, no one's forcing you to buy it.
Red and Green aren't the same, they are chemically different and the prices of the consumables can affect the cost of each color.
So that's why Apple sold the black macbook for a hundred bucks more? Because the black paint is way more expensive?
The data gets sold and resold and eventually spills out all over the place, we end up with everybody's whole life indexed and freely, easily accessible. Insurance companies, business, intelligence organizations, law enforcement and so on adapt accordingly and everybody realizes how much screwed they are when the full implications of utter abolition of their privacy sink in. From there, it depends. In the best case, a paranoid minority may have managed to keep at least some of their stuff private, and develop methods to do so, which can then be used by the rest of the public to fix the mess. Or possibly it'll just be too late by the time people realize they need to think about what they stick on their MySpace.
Right, because the controller recoils realistically and weighs several kilograms to simulate actual weapon weight. Sorry to burst your bubble, but they'll cram in auto aim until enough of the player base can aim just as effortlessly. There's lots of mouse/keyboard games which make aiming require what I guess you might call skill, no one plays them.
Of course, you're just bitter because somebody kicked your ass last time you played an FPS.
Why do people write like this, as if
what they are saying is some sort of poetry
when they are only ranting about Big Brother?
I'd understand if they kept meter or
at least rhyme but there is no rhyme nor reason
to it, if you'll excuse the pun.
And since I'm being pedantic anyway why
has the expression PS not died yet? You are
not writing with expensive Chinese ink on expensive
paper, you can just go back and add your
afterthoughts where it's appropriate, you know.
By the way, could it be a problem,
with my browser? I doubt it.
It's still Bill's face that's on the slashdot icon too, no?
It's not about ads, it's about where the data goes after they're done showing you ads.
So what's the deal with airline food?
Really? This is ridiculous. He can push some buttons very fast? Gimme a break. Running the mile involves a very strict diet and exercise regimen. I don't really care for sports, outside health-oriented exercise, but running the mile is NOT the same as typing very fast. It is as much an accomplishment as eating the most hotdogs.
Also, your post has a logical fallacy. Assuming most accomplishments are arbitrary (I don't see why they would be, but whatever), so what? Most women you'd want to sleep with have two legs. So do chimps. Do you see my point?