I find for many people morals are dictated by consequence. When its just so damn easy to go to suprnova.org and download whatever you want with virtually 0 chance of beeing caught..people tend to do it.
This mostly really applies to lesser things for most people. Stuff like this, or speeding, etc. If cops didn't enforce speeding ever, everyone would just go whatever speed THEY felt safe at. Not what speed the law says.
But the problem is the contents of the installation CD is encrypted. When you install, after the files are copied the program contacts valve for the key to decrypt the files. If valve is gone, the files remain encrypted forever, and you cant patch a cd.
There is already a patch to make hl2 not use steam from the scene, and if valve was discontinuing their steam auth servers, I'm sure they could put out a 2k legit patch that would do the same thing.
Have you seen it? You can barely tell the difference anyways. It isnt like counter-strike where they went thru and re-did the whole game. You can only really tell when looking at water and some lighting.
Yes but you're talking like we can modulate laser at high frequency. The only real way to do this is fiber optics that i know of, using a phase shift modulator. We cant turn a diode on and off near fast enuf to take advantage of the bandwidth a 500+ THz carrier. We arent really using it like RF.
Other than in fiber optics, its pretty hard to modulate a laser really quickly. In fiber optics the phase shift style modulator just splits the laser into two fiber cables and using a field we phase shift one of the lines by 180 degrees for an off, and no phase shift for an on.
Not sure if we could re-collimate the laser light after putting it through the modulator.
-devilsadvocate- What is the difference really with single player and multiplayer. Both are accepted functions of the game. Look at Q3A. It is basically multiplayer only..what if ID takes its auth server offline? All the copies are useless.
I realize there are cracked servers but ignore that for now.
What is the moral difference of requiring activation to play on someones (not ID's) server, and playing locally.
You should argue no activation at all, or activation for everything.
The whole point of the whole damn story is that someone made a connector so you can use your normal cordless phone on skype's voip network wiht the "cheap Soundblaster microphone crap".
"You actually just use the phone like your normal phone and it automatically uses VoIP for all calls." --
exactly..thats just what you do here. The only difference is you have the option.
Its only 0.02 euros per minute for many major countries.
Sure you get more IPC out of a PPC, but you still only have whatever speed you have. My friend has a 1.4 ghz pc and has no troubles burning dvds while browsing and running apps in the background.
His fps in ut2004 might be a bit low, but other than that, it works just fine for everything.
If you dont play games or do any computationally intensive tasks, a few years old 1ghz pc will do you totally fine wiht windows xp any any web browsing, bill paying, or word processing you can do.
Its only because PC users do more things with their pc that might require upgrades. It doesnt make the mac have any longer longevity, it just means they limit themselves more as to their activities so they dont have to upgrade.
Yes it is unfortunatly veulnreble to a man in the middle attack i assume, since it probably uses diffie-hellman key exchange. I dont think there are any recorded instances of this attack in the wild since its fairly hard to do, but it definatly is possible. Still better than nothing. Maybe one day it will have a seperate RSA type public/private key exchange. More of a hassle, but worth it if you want properly secure encryption. It is what i use on MSN with SIMP.(free by the way, secway.fr..very nice program..linux and windows, altho linux ver only supports diffie-hellman (AES) i believe)
If you're so worried about disk space, convert the bitmap to a png. More computationally intensive, but MUCH greater disk savings. Depends what you're concerned about.
The exit polls DO have margins of error like all polls...These are the only thing we're basing a 'bush wins' decision on right now. The votes arent counted.
When they ARE counted, the margin for error is 0 or very near 0. In each county the ballots are counted by election officialls, then checked by other officials. In each county the margin for error is pretty much 0, so why should it be any different on the national scale?
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Nope.
I find for many people morals are dictated by consequence. When its just so damn easy to go to suprnova.org and download whatever you want with virtually 0 chance of beeing caught..people tend to do it.
This mostly really applies to lesser things for most people. Stuff like this, or speeding, etc. If cops didn't enforce speeding ever, everyone would just go whatever speed THEY felt safe at. Not what speed the law says.
Steam clone maybe...
But the problem is the contents of the installation CD is encrypted. When you install, after the files are copied the program contacts valve for the key to decrypt the files. If valve is gone, the files remain encrypted forever, and you cant patch a cd.
Coral Cached link..
:D
Not sure if its been posted yet but i didnt find it..Coral got most of it, only a couple images missing.
Hurry and see! might be swithcing to cache the suspended link any time!
There is already a patch to make hl2 not use steam from the scene, and if valve was discontinuing their steam auth servers, I'm sure they could put out a 2k legit patch that would do the same thing.
Have you seen it? You can barely tell the difference anyways. It isnt like counter-strike where they went thru and re-did the whole game. You can only really tell when looking at water and some lighting.
Yes.
At least, as of right now, i can go into my half-life 2 directory and delete it all. It just re-downloads what it needs.
I dont mind steam at all actually.
Yeah just slower.
Dont forget edison had very little to do wiht the lightbulb other than its commercial promotion.
I dont think any respected source could claim edison 'invented' the light bulb.
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Yes but you're talking like we can modulate laser at high frequency. The only real way to do this is fiber optics that i know of, using a phase shift modulator. We cant turn a diode on and off near fast enuf to take advantage of the bandwidth a 500+ THz carrier. We arent really using it like RF.
Other than in fiber optics, its pretty hard to modulate a laser really quickly. In fiber optics the phase shift style modulator just splits the laser into two fiber cables and using a field we phase shift one of the lines by 180 degrees for an off, and no phase shift for an on.
Not sure if we could re-collimate the laser light after putting it through the modulator.
I wonder how much faster since you'd have to spend half your trip decelerating, assuming you have a given thrust.
Christ are there really any 30 year old virgins here? I mean seriously guys its not THAT hard to get some sex.
-devilsadvocate-
What is the difference really with single player and multiplayer. Both are accepted functions of the game.
Look at Q3A. It is basically multiplayer only..what if ID takes its auth server offline? All the copies are useless.
I realize there are cracked servers but ignore that for now.
What is the moral difference of requiring activation to play on someones (not ID's) server, and playing locally.
You should argue no activation at all, or activation for everything.
That's a pretty good explanation :D
I bet you could make a fortune selling that game on ebay right now and just wait for your preload to kick in.
What the hell are you talking about?
It is on suprnova.org right now, with thousands of downloaders.
Explain that?
Uh, he dindt limit himself to the inquisition and you should either.
What about the countless crusades?
What about the continuing battle of protestants and cathloics in ireland?
I'd bet that the numbers dead for religeous reasons are second only to natural causes. Maybe not even that.
Who modded this insightful?
The whole point of the whole damn story is that someone made a connector so you can use your normal cordless phone on skype's voip network wiht the "cheap Soundblaster microphone crap".
"You actually just use the phone like your normal phone and it automatically uses VoIP for all calls." --
exactly..thats just what you do here. The only difference is you have the option.
Its only 0.02 euros per minute for many major countries.
The rates for all countries are here
Gmail has always stated that pop3 access would probably be pay only. No need to get excited.
Sure you get more IPC out of a PPC, but you still only have whatever speed you have. My friend has a 1.4 ghz pc and has no troubles burning dvds while browsing and running apps in the background.
His fps in ut2004 might be a bit low, but other than that, it works just fine for everything.
How is this unique to apple?
If you dont play games or do any computationally intensive tasks, a few years old 1ghz pc will do you totally fine wiht windows xp any any web browsing, bill paying, or word processing you can do.
Its only because PC users do more things with their pc that might require upgrades. It doesnt make the mac have any longer longevity, it just means they limit themselves more as to their activities so they dont have to upgrade.
Yes it is unfortunatly veulnreble to a man in the middle attack i assume, since it probably uses diffie-hellman key exchange. I dont think there are any recorded instances of this attack in the wild since its fairly hard to do, but it definatly is possible. Still better than nothing. Maybe one day it will have a seperate RSA type public/private key exchange. More of a hassle, but worth it if you want properly secure encryption. It is what i use on MSN with SIMP.(free by the way, secway.fr..very nice program..linux and windows, altho linux ver only supports diffie-hellman (AES) i believe)
If you're so worried about disk space, convert the bitmap to a png. More computationally intensive, but MUCH greater disk savings. Depends what you're concerned about.
The most popular voip seems to be skype..which is encrypted with aes-256..good luck wiretapping that.
Man who cares? Is hard drive space at a premium all of the sudden?
Anyways, skype is awesome for a lot of reasons.
It works transparently thru nats for chatting, file transfers and messaging. Try that msn messenger.
All 3 of the above activities are encrypted with a AES-256 symmetric cypher.
It does all of this with VERY little lag and better quality than a telephone.
Cuz its 10mb i wouldnt exactly discount it. Havent found anything else that really compares.
Thats not how it works...
The exit polls DO have margins of error like all polls...These are the only thing we're basing a 'bush wins' decision on right now. The votes arent counted.
When they ARE counted, the margin for error is 0 or very near 0. In each county the ballots are counted by election officialls, then checked by other officials. In each county the margin for error is pretty much 0, so why should it be any different on the national scale?