Yeah, googling my name you'll find nothing, but googling my alias, the frist result is http://slashdot.org/~Xymor where anyone can read my stupid posting history. Thank god my alias isn't in my resume.
I wish they would release it at once. It will come out eventually. It's a great powerful machine will tons of cool feats, and I know lots of people dyeing to make homebrew/linux-ports/apps for it.
Right on. MS might be able to improve IE7 Security to match FF but, they can't ship a list to block ad-providers with their browser. One a second thought, can MS even ship IE7 budled with Vista? How are they doing in Europe and Korea again?
Alhtough Sony is kinda known for their pre-release Hype, They are a long time in the market, Playstation brand is over 10 years old and MS is very fresh in business. I can't help thinking that Sony and Nintendo know what there are doing.
And both are not as Bad as StarForce rootkit. Yet DRM is still DRM, I mean, how come you can't you use the content you rightfully own as you most see fit?
Starforce games are not pirated at all...
Strangelly enought, right now there are thousands of people downloading torrents of: X3: Reunion, UFO: Aftershock, Splinter Cell3....
Their half-ass copy protection is easly bypassed and if don't have IDE optical drives it's like there is no protection at all.
Same here, this is a great game, but I was sold on "no protection". I bought 2 copies(one for my father, who loves Strategy games).
PS: That research robot guy quotes are hilarious indeed.
Only if you're using IDE optical drives. If you use SATA/USB/SCSI/whatever SF ver 3.X doesn't even ask for serial numbers.
If you have at least one IDE optical drive in your PC, Starforce will only allow you to use this drive to play.
That's not RPG's exlusive fault. If you pick 100 games of the same category/genre you can see little differece between most of them. This is a problem of the hole game industry: same plots, same history, same gameplay....
That's what Nintendo is trying to make of the Revolution, the solution to all our problems, but this can only be solved by inovative game developers, writers, directors, etc....
Of course, I might be completely wrong, and this problems with games is only part of a larger problem envolving music and movies for instance.
Smart move I guess. I doubt this will affect US Release, But what I'm really interested to know is what Xbox360 features are they going to include in the system with this delay. I'm sure the released specs are going to change just as they change their minds about a central PS-Online system.
Ah and by holidays, BD drives should be less expensive and the 900 bucks to manifacture projection will fall apart.
If people can encrypt bittorrent packet's header making it stealth and bypassing shapping, whouldn't be possible to encrypt voIP packets for the same purpose?
And let's remember, it's only legal to copy these songs from CDs to whatever you want, IF the CD isn't DRM'd. DMCA says you cannot bypass a DRM of a content you legally own, movie, music or whatever.
In my mind, these big cartels only exist because in the old days was so expensive and difficult to distribute Music/Movies.
Media content sellers should stop selling media and start selling licenses.
Actually each one of these places you can play your files is one copy, and since you have a limited amount of copies, you're gonna have to re-buy the same song you already own once you have no copies left.
In my understadnding, once you buy a CD, you have a license to play it's songs in any format, in as many devices as you want and as many cars you have.
Another problem is iTunes proprietary format not being compatible with all media devices(or devices not compatible with DRMed media in general).
Maybe, but then selling blood and organs should fit the same logic. It's your body and you should be able to do whatever.
OTOH, if i'm not wrong, the state is supposed to protect you from yourself, by not letting these things happen.
Is there anyone else *really* NOT into MMOG or is it just me? I mean, online-gaming is too competitive and case of MassiveMOGs, a lot of hard working. My days of hardcore 6h/day top-scores gaming are over, now I'm more of a relax and play kinda a guy and I feel more and more negletec and alone in this Xbox Live, MMOGs world.
Seriously, even chatting 10-way using top real-time video compression it's very unlikely that new cpus in new systems, even cheaper less powerfull ones, should not be able to handle skype.
AMD user-base is increasing so it will probably be skype's loss.
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They should judge within Internet Community standards, so if the picture is not obscene enough for the internet it should be taken offline.
Yeah, googling my name you'll find nothing, but googling my alias, the frist result is http://slashdot.org/~Xymor where anyone can read my stupid posting history. Thank god my alias isn't in my resume.
Sorry for my bad english. I meant dying.
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Funny, maybe this could be the new MS motto.
Microsoft, cleaning after itself. or Microsoft, fixing the problems you didn't have.
I wish they would release it at once. It will come out eventually. It's a great powerful machine will tons of cool feats, and I know lots of people dyeing to make homebrew/linux-ports/apps for it.
Right on. MS might be able to improve IE7 Security to match FF but, they can't ship a list to block ad-providers with their browser. One a second thought, can MS even ship IE7 budled with Vista? How are they doing in Europe and Korea again?
Alhtough Sony is kinda known for their pre-release Hype, They are a long time in the market, Playstation brand is over 10 years old and MS is very fresh in business. I can't help thinking that Sony and Nintendo know what there are doing.
And both are not as Bad as StarForce rootkit. Yet DRM is still DRM, I mean, how come you can't you use the content you rightfully own as you most see fit?
Starforce games are not pirated at all... Strangelly enought, right now there are thousands of people downloading torrents of: X3: Reunion, UFO: Aftershock, Splinter Cell3....
Their half-ass copy protection is easly bypassed and if don't have IDE optical drives it's like there is no protection at all.
Same here, this is a great game, but I was sold on "no protection". I bought 2 copies(one for my father, who loves Strategy games).
PS: That research robot guy quotes are hilarious indeed.
Only if you're using IDE optical drives. If you use SATA/USB/SCSI/whatever SF ver 3.X doesn't even ask for serial numbers. If you have at least one IDE optical drive in your PC, Starforce will only allow you to use this drive to play.
That's not RPG's exlusive fault. If you pick 100 games of the same category/genre you can see little differece between most of them. This is a problem of the hole game industry: same plots, same history, same gameplay....
That's what Nintendo is trying to make of the Revolution, the solution to all our problems, but this can only be solved by inovative game developers, writers, directors, etc....
Of course, I might be completely wrong, and this problems with games is only part of a larger problem envolving music and movies for instance.
Amazing list! Real world laws and FANTASY games have tons of discrepancies. Who'd thought!
PS: funny read anyway. =)
Smart move I guess. I doubt this will affect US Release, But what I'm really interested to know is what Xbox360 features are they going to include in the system with this delay. I'm sure the released specs are going to change just as they change their minds about a central PS-Online system.
Ah and by holidays, BD drives should be less expensive and the 900 bucks to manifacture projection will fall apart.
If people can encrypt bittorrent packet's header making it stealth and bypassing shapping, whouldn't be possible to encrypt voIP packets for the same purpose?
If only the would setup up their sites in Sealand of somthing alike, they would be completely safe from Riaa, Mpaa...
(That is, if they don't hire merc or pirates to actually raid their servers)
Man, your point is serious. If this bill passes, and all children are limited to boring games, they might start reading and it would be disastrous.
we can only hope it won't come to it.
And let's remember, it's only legal to copy these songs from CDs to whatever you want, IF the CD isn't DRM'd. DMCA says you cannot bypass a DRM of a content you legally own, movie, music or whatever.
In my mind, these big cartels only exist because in the old days was so expensive and difficult to distribute Music/Movies.
Media content sellers should stop selling media and start selling licenses.
This guy obviously just woke up after hybernating for 10 years.
Actually each one of these places you can play your files is one copy, and since you have a limited amount of copies, you're gonna have to re-buy the same song you already own once you have no copies left.
In my understadnding, once you buy a CD, you have a license to play it's songs in any format, in as many devices as you want and as many cars you have.
Another problem is iTunes proprietary format not being compatible with all media devices(or devices not compatible with DRMed media in general).
Wine 9.0.8 should be able to emulate even the Blue screen of death.
Maybe, but then selling blood and organs should fit the same logic. It's your body and you should be able to do whatever.
OTOH, if i'm not wrong, the state is supposed to protect you from yourself, by not letting these things happen.
Wait, Isn't Prostituion illegal in US?
Is there anyone else *really* NOT into MMOG or is it just me? I mean, online-gaming is too competitive and case of MassiveMOGs, a lot of hard working. My days of hardcore 6h/day top-scores gaming are over, now I'm more of a relax and play kinda a guy and I feel more and more negletec and alone in this Xbox Live, MMOGs world.
Seriously, even chatting 10-way using top real-time video compression it's very unlikely that new cpus in new systems, even cheaper less powerfull ones, should not be able to handle skype.
AMD user-base is increasing so it will probably be skype's loss.