It is kind of silly to see a game developer for a game where killing people by the truck load is the primary objective force his morals on everyone. The way his message is worded implies given an evil option, all players will inexplicably perform said evil. That's not even remotely true, and if the few who want to kill a few pretend citizens, I'm not really seeing the problem outside of what I think the real issue is: they're too afraid of media hype against the game. Sure it drums up publicity, but some people don't have the stomach to handle the kind of criticism that Rockstar or other studios can.
It would have been so much better if there were civilians, but killing one, even accidentally fails the mission. It gives you incentive not to just blindly fire your weapon everywhere and increases difficulty when you have to actually consider your actions.
Basically this guys moral compass is hindering a good gameplay element all for the sake of make believe humans. Because if he wont stand up for them, who will?
I don't think anyone is suggesting we entirely replace doctors actually talking with their patients with this equipment. It's a tool like any other to give a doctor insight.
They don't think they know how stupid we are; they know it. They know this will all blow over and they'll be allowed to merge.
I am hoping from the bottom of my heart that this merger doesn't happen, but at least if it does I'll have a way to back out of my contract with T-Mobile. I will not be an AT&T customer. Never again.
No, what he means is that the PDF file listing the pirated content contains working links to said pirated contact. It's like a tiny table that lists what it is, where you can get it (tinyurl links to megaupload), how much it's worth, et cetera.
It does seem a bit weird for them to show you where to pirate the content yourself.
Well to be fair that's kind of like saying "why use notepad when you can download notepad++"
The usefulness isn't in competing in feature sets. The usefulness is that it comes with your operating system and is available immediately without needing to download (and potentially compile) anything.
Windows console applications have always been in the windows system directory since the early days, so I'm not really seeing your brilliant point here. If anything, I'd say that directory is almost the console equivalent of Applications/Utilities.
You wouldn't need to know where ping.exe is because the system directory is always included in PATH. It's also a console application so I'm not entirely sure how that comparison works. I have absolutely no experience with macs so I don't know how this application is launched, but can it be launched from the console without knowing its exact directory structure? If not then the only way to find this on your own is by complete chance, playing explorer in the file system hierarchy.
Given the nature of the application and its usefulness, it makes sense for it to be openly visible to the public without having to get insider information from others or manually exploring the hard drive.
Sure, right now both have patents on various tech that the other is accused of violating. I don't feel either are the "bad" side, though I have to admit I'm biased against what Apple claims in their patent. I have no idea what HTCs new patents are though so they could be as equally ridiculous to me as Apples feels.
Really right now I'm just appalled how people seem to think Apple has a right to defend their patents, but HTC/Google isn't.
So if you agree that Apple may have violated those patents, what's the issue? Google has just as much right to stand up for its property as Apple does.
You've already basically admitted that someone can and has challenged Google, so it's easy to reiterate that no one is forcing anyone to use Google. Bing is actually a very good search engine and if someone detested Google so much that they refuse to search through it; there are completely viable alternatives.
I'm pretty sure when it comes to online activation, all game developers keep their own lists like this which blocks out anything but keys in the list, which makes keygen keys invalid.
Not that keygen writers actually need a list of keys to reverse engineer the key structure. They just analyze the code that checks the key in order to figure out how to generate keys that will validate the installer key check.
Watching you go off on a tangent all while calling me "mr epeen" is really just hilarious. My mediocre core 2 duo machine with 4 gigs of ram and a ~$140 graphics card from a year ago really makes my epeen rage with blood!
I know very well how well games run on less than expensive hardware and have never spent more than $500 myself on my next iteration. But I also don't expect to have a solid framerate at native resolution while playing virtually any newer games (by solid I mean 60 without constant dips) like you claim, on any graphic settings higher than "medium" (if that) which quite honestly is generally rather blurry in terms of quality and is definitely not what I would consider "better than consoles" (of course YMMV from game to game but it's not particularly endearing). I can barely pan the camera in the new dues ex game while putting everything to its lowest possible settings, while fluctuating randomly between 30-60 in games like borderlands (except if shadows are enabled and then it grinds downward, and it only sticks to 60 if I'm not rotating my camera). I never even play with antialiasing to begin with because I don't mind the aliasing enough to warrant the performance penalty for using it.
Batman: AA isn't an extremely good example to support your analysis either. Almost all "indoor" games tend to play well and it's a number of years old to boot. It was certainly a good game to be sure, but it definitely wasn't a game that would stress much hardware by any stretch of the imagination.
I certainly don't think people should be wasting money on those $2000 or even $1000 machines various companies try to push, but I'm certainly going to call anyones bullshit for suggesting a $380 is going to really cut it, and make the user really feel like it's performing nicely.
And if you're playing OnLive it hardly matters what your specs are. People have reported success playing OnLive games on netbooks at a decent speed. Honestly, you sound like nothing more than a pitchman assuring us that ShamWow really is super effective and not likely a waste if you plan to be using the towel extensively for the purpose of deep scrubbing for a long time. Just because game makers tend to target consoles and port over to the PC doesn't mean a whole lot. Many companies don't value the PC market very well and don't take care when porting, leaving all sorts of performance issues. That's one of the primary reasons it's usually derogatory to call a game a port. There's also a much harsher penalty for PCs due to the direct access games have to hardware on consoles versus the abstraction they have to deal with on PCs, so directly comparing the specs from a console to specs from a PC is asinine.
But you keep doing what you do guy. Sell people those cheap computers and tell them it will show them the world. What do I care, I'm just another random face on the internet?
It really is just a novelty. Less practical and more of a collection piece. You could use it to point at stars or signal others at a distance to your location (this apparently comes with a built in SOS flicker mode), but I'd be too afraid to point it at the sky for fear of messing up some satellite or fail to notice some small plane in the sky and blind the pilot and/or passengers.
To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about this being readily available to anyone since they are extremely dangerous. They don't carry the same sort of instant concept of danger that say a gun would, and while they won't directly kill anyone, they could certainly destroy someones life very easily with their even innocent misuse. Not that I'm suggesting they be regulated like guns or anything. I definitely don't think children should be able to purchase them or even use them.
You're the 7,000,000,000th living baby to view the world! Cry here to claim your iPod(r) Touch or $500 Wal-Mart(r) Gift Card!
However odds are probably more likely it will be born in a poverty-stricken country so the prizes will probably be a stale loaf of bread or some dirty water.
Funny, it's anecdotal but I've received nothing but grief from UPS. They've delivered my package to the wrong address a dozen times in the past several years (these were expensive packages, mind you, not some trivial affair), their tracking of my packages often read "Delivered" days in advance of delivery, and their customer service was unhelpful to me when I would address concerns.
These days I avoid UPS like the plague if at all possible.
Holy crap, do you really think a $380 "gaming" PC is going to run current games at an even remotely decent quality? And that $550 prebuilt machine is equally silly. You will not be playing current generation games at a decent speed or decent quality on it.
I personally think this is a bit lame. I think the idea is pretty cool (and I don't blame the guy for doing it, do what you love to do!) but the execution seemed to fall short. If it required one power supply and at least had some sort of switch for the video, it would have been a lot cooler. But fitting 2 power supplies and requiring 2 monitors (or to manually switch when switching systems) is kind of lame.
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It is kind of silly to see a game developer for a game where killing people by the truck load is the primary objective force his morals on everyone. The way his message is worded implies given an evil option, all players will inexplicably perform said evil. That's not even remotely true, and if the few who want to kill a few pretend citizens, I'm not really seeing the problem outside of what I think the real issue is: they're too afraid of media hype against the game. Sure it drums up publicity, but some people don't have the stomach to handle the kind of criticism that Rockstar or other studios can.
It would have been so much better if there were civilians, but killing one, even accidentally fails the mission. It gives you incentive not to just blindly fire your weapon everywhere and increases difficulty when you have to actually consider your actions.
Basically this guys moral compass is hindering a good gameplay element all for the sake of make believe humans. Because if he wont stand up for them, who will?
I don't think anyone is suggesting we entirely replace doctors actually talking with their patients with this equipment. It's a tool like any other to give a doctor insight.
But the graphics could use some work. It looks almost hard to navigate being of such quality.
They don't think they know how stupid we are; they know it. They know this will all blow over and they'll be allowed to merge.
I am hoping from the bottom of my heart that this merger doesn't happen, but at least if it does I'll have a way to back out of my contract with T-Mobile. I will not be an AT&T customer. Never again.
No, what he means is that the PDF file listing the pirated content contains working links to said pirated contact. It's like a tiny table that lists what it is, where you can get it (tinyurl links to megaupload), how much it's worth, et cetera.
It does seem a bit weird for them to show you where to pirate the content yourself.
Well to be fair that's kind of like saying "why use notepad when you can download notepad++"
The usefulness isn't in competing in feature sets. The usefulness is that it comes with your operating system and is available immediately without needing to download (and potentially compile) anything.
Windows console applications have always been in the windows system directory since the early days, so I'm not really seeing your brilliant point here. If anything, I'd say that directory is almost the console equivalent of Applications/Utilities.
You wouldn't need to know where ping.exe is because the system directory is always included in PATH. It's also a console application so I'm not entirely sure how that comparison works. I have absolutely no experience with macs so I don't know how this application is launched, but can it be launched from the console without knowing its exact directory structure? If not then the only way to find this on your own is by complete chance, playing explorer in the file system hierarchy.
Given the nature of the application and its usefulness, it makes sense for it to be openly visible to the public without having to get insider information from others or manually exploring the hard drive.
Sure, right now both have patents on various tech that the other is accused of violating. I don't feel either are the "bad" side, though I have to admit I'm biased against what Apple claims in their patent. I have no idea what HTCs new patents are though so they could be as equally ridiculous to me as Apples feels.
Really right now I'm just appalled how people seem to think Apple has a right to defend their patents, but HTC/Google isn't.
So if you agree that Apple may have violated those patents, what's the issue? Google has just as much right to stand up for its property as Apple does.
You've already basically admitted that someone can and has challenged Google, so it's easy to reiterate that no one is forcing anyone to use Google. Bing is actually a very good search engine and if someone detested Google so much that they refuse to search through it; there are completely viable alternatives.
So..?
How the hell are people modding this insightful? The whole second half is pure trolling and flamebait.
I'm pretty sure when it comes to online activation, all game developers keep their own lists like this which blocks out anything but keys in the list, which makes keygen keys invalid.
Not that keygen writers actually need a list of keys to reverse engineer the key structure. They just analyze the code that checks the key in order to figure out how to generate keys that will validate the installer key check.
Watching you go off on a tangent all while calling me "mr epeen" is really just hilarious. My mediocre core 2 duo machine with 4 gigs of ram and a ~$140 graphics card from a year ago really makes my epeen rage with blood!
I know very well how well games run on less than expensive hardware and have never spent more than $500 myself on my next iteration. But I also don't expect to have a solid framerate at native resolution while playing virtually any newer games (by solid I mean 60 without constant dips) like you claim, on any graphic settings higher than "medium" (if that) which quite honestly is generally rather blurry in terms of quality and is definitely not what I would consider "better than consoles" (of course YMMV from game to game but it's not particularly endearing). I can barely pan the camera in the new dues ex game while putting everything to its lowest possible settings, while fluctuating randomly between 30-60 in games like borderlands (except if shadows are enabled and then it grinds downward, and it only sticks to 60 if I'm not rotating my camera). I never even play with antialiasing to begin with because I don't mind the aliasing enough to warrant the performance penalty for using it.
Batman: AA isn't an extremely good example to support your analysis either. Almost all "indoor" games tend to play well and it's a number of years old to boot. It was certainly a good game to be sure, but it definitely wasn't a game that would stress much hardware by any stretch of the imagination.
I certainly don't think people should be wasting money on those $2000 or even $1000 machines various companies try to push, but I'm certainly going to call anyones bullshit for suggesting a $380 is going to really cut it, and make the user really feel like it's performing nicely.
And if you're playing OnLive it hardly matters what your specs are. People have reported success playing OnLive games on netbooks at a decent speed.
Honestly, you sound like nothing more than a pitchman assuring us that ShamWow really is super effective and not likely a waste if you plan to be using the towel extensively for the purpose of deep scrubbing for a long time. Just because game makers tend to target consoles and port over to the PC doesn't mean a whole lot. Many companies don't value the PC market very well and don't take care when porting, leaving all sorts of performance issues. That's one of the primary reasons it's usually derogatory to call a game a port. There's also a much harsher penalty for PCs due to the direct access games have to hardware on consoles versus the abstraction they have to deal with on PCs, so directly comparing the specs from a console to specs from a PC is asinine.
But you keep doing what you do guy. Sell people those cheap computers and tell them it will show them the world. What do I care, I'm just another random face on the internet?
Forced? You're aware you can disable indexing completely, right?
Funny how that often seems to be the case.
It really is just a novelty. Less practical and more of a collection piece. You could use it to point at stars or signal others at a distance to your location (this apparently comes with a built in SOS flicker mode), but I'd be too afraid to point it at the sky for fear of messing up some satellite or fail to notice some small plane in the sky and blind the pilot and/or passengers.
To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about this being readily available to anyone since they are extremely dangerous. They don't carry the same sort of instant concept of danger that say a gun would, and while they won't directly kill anyone, they could certainly destroy someones life very easily with their even innocent misuse. Not that I'm suggesting they be regulated like guns or anything. I definitely don't think children should be able to purchase them or even use them.
You're the 7,000,000,000th living baby to view the world! Cry here to claim your iPod(r) Touch or $500 Wal-Mart(r) Gift Card!
However odds are probably more likely it will be born in a poverty-stricken country so the prizes will probably be a stale loaf of bread or some dirty water.
This post really gave me a laugh. I don't think it was meant to be taken seriously, but I have been wrong.
Funny, it's anecdotal but I've received nothing but grief from UPS. They've delivered my package to the wrong address a dozen times in the past several years (these were expensive packages, mind you, not some trivial affair), their tracking of my packages often read "Delivered" days in advance of delivery, and their customer service was unhelpful to me when I would address concerns.
These days I avoid UPS like the plague if at all possible.
I think you're a hypocrite.
The argument goes both ways, man.
Seems the world is black and white to a majority of people. It either works perfectly or doesn't work at all. Both sides push their views as gospel.
Holy crap, do you really think a $380 "gaming" PC is going to run current games at an even remotely decent quality? And that $550 prebuilt machine is equally silly. You will not be playing current generation games at a decent speed or decent quality on it.
I really want some of what you're smoking.
I personally think this is a bit lame. I think the idea is pretty cool (and I don't blame the guy for doing it, do what you love to do!) but the execution seemed to fall short. If it required one power supply and at least had some sort of switch for the video, it would have been a lot cooler. But fitting 2 power supplies and requiring 2 monitors (or to manually switch when switching systems) is kind of lame.