That's mostly what I play and I got off the PC treadmill. Yeah, the graphics may not be the OMGWTFBBQ you get with a high end PC rig. On the other hand, I haven't had to modify an INI file, install a driver, tweak the driver, download another driver that might work. Upgrade my video card. Try to get my friends into the game. Get us all on the same audio channel...steam version...whatever.
Instead, I put the game in the machine, add my friends to a party, and invite them to the game. And it just WORKS.
Sorry, I do computer support for a living. Trying to get a new game to work, then getting it to work on my friends systems, and then getting us all together to play? Not worth it.
At this point friends and family are the only PC's I work on. They at least understand the concept of returning the favor in some way/shape/form. I stopped doing that for anyone else.
You forgot sometimes the broadcasters will screw with the start and end times of the programs just to piss off the DVR crew. I mean really, starting the show a minute early or ending it at X:31 PM accomplishes what really?
Oh, yeah, I can add additional time to my program when I set up a series to record but then you have three programs recording at the same time (the DVR only does two) and the DVR throws a fit and doesn't record one.
Getting to the point that it's easier to download the episode....
I keep seeing that Sony did this to 'send a message' to the hacking community. I'm betting that message will end up being 'post the hack/private key' as anonymously as possible the next time. Once it's out they won't be able to stop it and they won't have a target to go after.
Frankly, I'm surprised the guy that posted the Airplay key didn't go this route. He is just setting himself up for an Apple lawsuit which I'm sure is already on the way.
I realize that there is a certain amount of pride from doing this....but that has gotten rather expensive.
Simple and easy...the friends I game with are those "people who has some difficulty in maintaining a computer" They all have Xbox 360's which allow them to do social gaming without the PC gaming upgrade cycle and all it's wonderful tweaking and drivers. On Friday nights we all put in Borderlands, or Gears, or L4D2...and play.
Buying a 360 was a bonus for me. I'm off the PC gaming upgrade cycle and there hasn't been a game yet that has motivated me to get back on....
Ficus tree? Hell, your whole network could be taken down by the most obvious method....dust.
Who is going to keep the dust off the receivers? The users? The cleaning crew? What happens if they use a little Endust to keep the dust from building up? How well does it work with a layer of uh....crud..... like a mixture of pledge and office dust.
Office remodel? Whole system is offline due to sheetrock dust.....
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What kind of detection radius for a 'pinging' object? Tens of miles? Hundreds of miles?
That's mostly what I play and I got off the PC treadmill. Yeah, the graphics may not be the OMGWTFBBQ you get with a high end PC rig. On the other hand, I haven't had to modify an INI file, install a driver, tweak the driver, download another driver that might work. Upgrade my video card. Try to get my friends into the game. Get us all on the same audio channel...steam version...whatever. Instead, I put the game in the machine, add my friends to a party, and invite them to the game. And it just WORKS. Sorry, I do computer support for a living. Trying to get a new game to work, then getting it to work on my friends systems, and then getting us all together to play? Not worth it.
At this point friends and family are the only PC's I work on. They at least understand the concept of returning the favor in some way/shape/form. I stopped doing that for anyone else.
You forgot sometimes the broadcasters will screw with the start and end times of the programs just to piss off the DVR crew. I mean really, starting the show a minute early or ending it at X:31 PM accomplishes what really?
Oh, yeah, I can add additional time to my program when I set up a series to record but then you have three programs recording at the same time (the DVR only does two) and the DVR throws a fit and doesn't record one.
Getting to the point that it's easier to download the episode....
I keep seeing that Sony did this to 'send a message' to the hacking community. I'm betting that message will end up being 'post the hack/private key' as anonymously as possible the next time. Once it's out they won't be able to stop it and they won't have a target to go after.
Frankly, I'm surprised the guy that posted the Airplay key didn't go this route. He is just setting himself up for an Apple lawsuit which I'm sure is already on the way.
I realize that there is a certain amount of pride from doing this....but that has gotten rather expensive.
Simple and easy...the friends I game with are those "people who has some difficulty in maintaining a computer" They all have Xbox 360's which allow them to do social gaming without the PC gaming upgrade cycle and all it's wonderful tweaking and drivers. On Friday nights we all put in Borderlands, or Gears, or L4D2...and play. Buying a 360 was a bonus for me. I'm off the PC gaming upgrade cycle and there hasn't been a game yet that has motivated me to get back on....
Ficus tree? Hell, your whole network could be taken down by the most obvious method....dust. Who is going to keep the dust off the receivers? The users? The cleaning crew? What happens if they use a little Endust to keep the dust from building up? How well does it work with a layer of uh....crud..... like a mixture of pledge and office dust. Office remodel? Whole system is offline due to sheetrock dust.....