vormav, where do you find those images lmfao :(:
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vormav, where do you find those images lmfao :(:
Form the internet,Quote:
Originally Posted by SheenBR
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Lolwut
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LOL, burka ninja edition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=PRScWbcrXR4
To be honest I think they training to protect themself from muslim man :)
I'm getting blind because of all the "no"'s I read XD
someone needs to teach me how to talk like that :(:
dats so wrong, but i'm nasty
I found interesting patent:
Patent US6293874 - User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks - Google Patents
If I wanted a machine which gives me a work out whilst repeatedly kicking my butt I'd buy a Wii.
But thanks... I think. :lol:
Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview (megaupload, it's right after he was released from jail)
Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview - Video Dailymotion
He have interesting points of view on piracy.
WOT!!!
There's pros and cons to the current IP state of affairs. It's just a mess. As it becomes our primary industry, it's also a mess which is the foundation of our financial system. It's clear that both are at a point of critical collapse.
IP law is not applicable to how we live now. Unenforceable and stifling to every form of "thought worker". (anyone who trades upon ideas and innovation as opposed to physical things crafted by industrial processes from hunting, farming and mining to factory floor manufacturing etc.) It's abhorrent to intellectuals and lovers of capitalism, free trade and freedom of speech alike.
Unfortunately, industrial society has no respect or recognition for "artists" as "thought workers". (Craftsman, possibly, but not artists)
If you perform on stage you can charge people to come and watch the performance, and make a living. This applies to musicians, actors, poets, lecturers, sportsmen (from Gladiators to Olympians right through to Football and Baseball) and supporting workers such as composers, playwrights, stage directors etc. can all enjoy a cut from the proceeds.
Once you record a performance so that the same performance can be enjoyed a second time without the performers presence, there is no pub, club, stadium, theatre, lecture hall etc. to charge at the door. The charge point was moved (by copyright) to the press.
That press was originally a literal printing press, so the door keeper became publishing houses. The manufacturing process of publishing houses printing music and literature fits an industrial metaphor. It can be extended to any software which is distributed by a physical medium. So Vinyl, Magnetic tape cartages, laser discs etc. are all fine within present IP. If you "re-publish" you break copyright.
The only physical medium with the internet is the cabling, and with wireless communications it's closes relative is the masts, dishes, satellites etc. You can't charge for the presence of radio frequency transmitting substances like air or water. This was where "broadcasters licenses" came in, and where the term "pirate" came from, with "pirate radio" stations operating off-shore, in international waters to avoid the broadcast license. (robbery on the high-seas)
On the internet, everyone becomes a publisher, or broadcaster. The only logical way to charge current IP laws to fit a medium like the internet would be to bill everyone who connects to the internet a "copyright fee" or "broadcast fee" and pay everyone who connects to the internet a "publishers fee". Wait... So you take our money and then give it back to us??? Well, you could charge for downloads and compensate for uploads. Most of us consume more than we produce.
This is absolutely not compatible with capitalist free market thinking. Can I film myself sat on the toilet, post it and receive the same compensation as George Lucas gets for any of his films? How does that even compare?
But if the "door" is an internet connection, then both performances occur in the same arena. Both must be charged for equally. You can charge an annual rate, and pay back or discount for "shares", or you can charge for downloads and discount for uploads. But you cannot differentiate quantity from quality, and neither can you differentiate reproduction from re-imagination or re-interpretation. It would be hard to even spot innovation, because (as Kim Dotcom points out with regards to the other providers who offered identical services to MegaUpload) the same basic idea typically occurs to several people at once, because we all encounter the same problems from living in the same environment at the same time.
If people can't make a living out of art, then art will die. Industrialism is dying too, as we run out of raw materials! So where does humanity stand without art or industry?
So long as we continue to try to compensate artists as though they where manufacturers, the concept of the internet is abhorrent to our law. But it thrives because it is absolutely in line with our social and intellectual being. So ultimately, what we are saying is that we cannot abide by the laws we have created for ourself. :scared:
These laws need to change. We cannot abolish them, and maintain our current financial system. But we cannot uphold them and maintain our current technological and intellectual progress. They can't be practically adapted or evolved, because they have simply outlived their usefulness. They need to be "replaced" entirely. A legal revolution, not evolution. Yet, historically, the law cannot be revolutionised without political revolution. :scared:
My personal opinion is that the political revolution is long overdue anyway. It will come, but our democratic overlords are very accustomed to preventing the civil unrest that leads to true political revolution. Even to the extent that they will stick their noses, unwanted and uncalled for, into the affairs of undemocratic nations who are prepared for that revolution, and impose their democratic "easing" on them to stop them finding a "better way", and gaining an advantage.
I don't know what that "better way" would be, and like most people I'm unwilling to implement the "anarchy" which would allow "natural selection" to find it. Anarchy is a scary idea, and last ditch attempt.
It's more like this, when we talking about main stream:Quote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
Not A Big Deal (Season 7, Episode 9) - Video Clips - South Park Studios
True is that some "stars" would never be popular if not piracy, like that girl who sign "Friday" multiple times. If people would not laugh and remix her she would never make money with lack of talent like this. Without piracy games would cost 3 maybe 10 times more. Look at PS3 to PC price. PC usually giving better graphics, fan made mods, fixes, better multiplayer and 2 times smaller price (e.g. Battlefield).
And the thing that Kim Dotcom mentioned in interview. I remember when Scott Pilgrim vs. the World went to the cinemas... every f*cking were but not in my country. Only way to get the movie was to buy DVD long after the world watched it. Shitty movies are always in cinemas but when there is good movie... ugh.
I'm not justifying piracy but I'm saying that I don't believe that giving money straight to company would increase quality. I actually see it opposite, best games/movies ever made had low budget. It's kind of different with music.
But I agree we are running out of raw material... or we are just getting too old. I don't like new movies and games, getting something good those days is very rare.
IDK if this is how the page you linked to looks for you, but it's pretty ironic. XD:lol:
I have no idea who 'that girl who sign "Friday" multiple times.' is, so clearly not all that famous. The reason console games tend to be more expensive is the cost of the SDK and "community site licensing". (XBolloxLife! and Playstationary Networx XD) Fortunately Microsoft have to compete with Mac OS X (which comes with X-Code Tools) and Linux, so the SDK is still free for PC Developers.
As for films... I've never heard of "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" either, but Hollywood has out-priced all our cinemas, so our local will only show films from the 1960s back and small independent films here. We'd have to travel to find an out of town that would be prepared to show the actual film. And since the local council pretty much prices car drivers off the road in a city like mine with congestion charges and park & ride / city parking permit + wage reduction for being a car owner on top of Road Tax, Insurance and MOT license... not to mention drivers license / EU Citizenship update and administration costs, and Carbon Emission Tax on top of over inflated fuel costs most people can't get to the "out of town" areas by public transport.
Yea, we generally have to wait till it's out on DVD a year after the U.S. DVD release... and by then I can't be arsed watching it, let alone paying the £25 for the DVD, or even a fiver to rent. Besides which... as you so rightly say, most Holywood films are just crap compared to the European / Canadian and Asian ones. Most of the "high budget" (non-independant) films I see are Pathé. (Though they usually team with a US / Canadian film company)
Running out or raw physical material. There is no more coal, oil, gas, iron etc. to dig up. XD (Some in existing mines / quarries, but no more to find) This is why primary and secondary industry is dying. The UK is 99.8% Tertiary employment, and most of that is held by over-seas out-source employees.:scared: (and David Cameron wonders why there are so many unemployed people... Dude! We are so Scroogeed. :(:)There is plenty of artistic material, and always will be... unless you start thinking of "art" as if it is an "industry". It isn't, industry is based on churning out large quantities of identical, or near identical items to maintain a consistent quality. Art is about each production being new and unique. Capitalism, communism and any other industrial paradigm cannot cope with this concept. There is no way to quantify individuality.Spoiler:
For example, farms size and grade eggs because each one is individual. For a music track to be good it has to be unlike anything else, and still pleasant to the ear of the listener. The more unique it is the better, unless it sounds like crap. What is your "egg grading" scale for "Unlike anything else" - "Sounds like crap" which produces a cost to a musical track? It can't be done. In fact, the best way to "sell" music would be to auction it as you would original paintings or sculptures. But that would require no more than one production of any track.
The ultimate in musical experience is still the live performance. If mp3 downloads where only ever seen as a marketing tool to get bums on seats at the concert hall, this would be fine. I suspect that many musicians would be happy with this, but record labels would not. XD Before the 1950's however, there where no big international "pop music stars". It was only radio promoting record sales which allowed studio recordings to replace sheet music. The international stars used to be the composer, and local talent would perform the stars work. :wink: In that sense, the record producers have had a bloody good run. :D:
.co.uk..............
http://www.southparkstudios.co.uk/ac...tercept_en.jpg
And people wonder why piracy exist..................................................................................................................
One Bullet, Two Kills - Like a boss! - YouTube
You should watch "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" it's "old school" for a "new" movie =P
PS3 SDK is leaked anyway =P But you can make PS3 games using Unity.
Friday: (don't listen it will destroy your brain)
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As type 0 civilisation we still have long way to go but as long there is "energy" (like solar energy) in the universe we "can" survive.
I was thinking about ideas; new books, games, movies feel like copy of something I already know. They'r making a lot of remakes and rarely something original.
But no mater how hard you try mp3 will not replace opera :)
lol, south park is funny even tho I cant understand why they hate canadians so much :(:
I was unfortunate enough to catch "Kill Bill" on Aunty. :(: I really wish I hadn't. That kind of film was not good the first time around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vormav
You can't "release" a PS3 game without an SDK license from Sony though. You need them to produce the disc with the laser lock, host it on PSN or all your users need hacked security chip. (actually, they can boot off a hacked USB dongle these days, which is nice)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vormav
I listened... brain rotted. WTF!? That is the most annoying accent in the world... EVER! Yes, utterly talentless. Except for the backing vocals and the guy at the end, who doesn't sound quite so annoying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vormav
Most of the Star Trek series was science fiction adaptations of old stories and legends, most of which are based on even older ones. The biblical story of "the great flood" can be traced back to stories nearly a thousand years older than Moses. So art reinventing it's self is nothing new.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vormav
Spoiler:Never mind the Opera, they will never replace the old boys singing a round in the local pub.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vormav
IDK if banana pickers still chant as they work (the origin of Calypso) but I know sailors (who would chant to keep oar pace or match rhythm hauling ropes) no longer do so in the same way.
I like to see a pub band play, even so. Sadly I don't drink and don't like to see people who do, so that kind of puts me off quite often.
I can book a day return to London and a West End musical or play for less than the cost of getting out to an IMAX to watch some crappy Hollywood "movie" though, and I know which I'd rather see. XD
Even a top 10 console game costs less than a cinema ticket for a Hollywood blockbuster.:blink: Cinema is dead, feature length YouTube is the future. :w00t: Remember "Video Killed the Radio Star"?
There is no point in releasing PT on not cracked PS3, they prohibit using mice XDQuote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
O yes, it was called "Epic of Gilgamesh" and was telling us same story about man and a flood... in 18th century Before Christ stories XDQuote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
You can always order coke with extra bubbles :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
Or you can drink ninja style >=P
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What is fragFX for then?http://www.estarland.com/images//Ext..._v2_detail.jpg
The Epic of Gilgamesh I read references all dates relative to the great flood and yet, is older than the Exodus. Yes. But there are many other references.I don't usually like "sweet" drinks either. :(: A very few pubs will still serve coffee, but only rarely in the evening. At least with Red Bull I can get my caffeine fix. ^_^Spoiler:
By looking at the buttons I see its not "original". Most likely $ony disabled it long time ago. They even disabling USB headphones. $ony will work only with $ony.
If there was mouse for PS3 than all those people who play MW or other crappy online shooters would be dead. Mouse vs Game Pad in FPS. Can't beat mouse XD
Finally, it's done!
Mari0 Portal
http://stabyourself.net/
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lol
MW3 is on the supported games list for fragFX, and a highly recommended addon. (was on the support group I originally found, but I can't find it form official manufacturer)Sony did (originally) produce their own mouse, and I know I've plugged a regular PC mouse and keyboard in to use on the built-in browser. The keyboard works for many game chat, but the mouse does nothing.Spoiler:
Since the mouse works in the OS, presumably it is simply a matter of game developers not supporting a mouse. (I guess this is similar to the flurry of PC games supporting X-Bollox controller, despite such devices being specifically designed not to fit in the hand of an unmutated human being and failing to support DualShock3 / Six-axis, which is quite possibly the most convenient game pad ever designed)
fragFX mouse "emulates" pad operation from the mouse, and I suspect that it works like ... if you could see the pointer on screen, that would be your right analogue stick position. You know? Rather than working how an actual PC mouse does, where you can keep picking it up and dragging again.
However, I also have an analogue joystick mouse driver to Windows that worked like that. Full right, pointer is on right hand side of screen, full forward, pointer is at the top etc. It beat the crap out of using a mouse for general operations. It was even worse than mouse for painting and drawing. (and that takes some doing ... mouses sux ... that's why I don't use one :lol:)
Friend told me that things like that are not working for him. I know that on hacked PS3 people wrote emulators to support mouse. Don't know how it's now. Sony like to block everything that have anything to do with emulation. Even usb arcade stick that where working on PS2 are blocked. Really strange.
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I don't think it's "block" so much as "unused". As I say, you can use PC keyboard and mouse in the main OS, and you can certainly use what-ever you like on Linux. (just write the driver yourself)
They have ensured that their OS wont dual-boot any more, and that really ticked off my PS3 friend, but I'm sure the reason was DRM breaking concerns with films and music sold on PSN. (If you can access the Sony partition from Linux you can crack the DRM and copy off to external drive for burning on your PC)
Sony also get "bad press" from cheap input devices that work like crap on their games, and I know they have a system to disable devices by the PnP manufacturer ID code.
Oh yea, P0rtal is way more difficult in 2D... I think.
I was thinking about PT security in general and I have few questions:
I think that sending results of hit/miss/critical should be send as a pseudo random number. So server can generate it too. E.g. critical percent using random factor e.g. last time server send in sync packet. Hackable?
What's bother me in PT is regeneration and MP/STM/HP.
Mana regeneration is very fast and obviously updating client with current value would lead to lag. Any better way to do this?
2 timers? One on server one on client? e.g. server have player MP + MP regen counter. Player use skill, mana pot and server is recreating this with +/- error ration. If player did not pot for X time and mp regen is too small than DC? Or there would be a problem with syncing this? I don't have any good Idea how to do secure MP regen.
And last question udp vs tcp. I know that some MMO use UDP and I would prefer it too... but possibility that packets sometimes could not be delivered or they could come out of order scares me when comes to security checks.
Client display should be estimation. Server should know what recovery rate is, and be applying penalties for skill / spell usage and received damage. It should then tell the client. Client can "smooth" the server notifications without packet update.
Of course, it doesn't. The client decides. :(:
Bollywood effects XD
When there is worst movie scene there must be best fighting scene ever! XD
Best fight scene of all time - YouTube
"Yeah. See Ya~" ...at the end XD
@bobsobol I was thinking from "unity pt" perspective. The regeneration smoothing speed/sync worry me a lot.
Yea! Cheesey joke fight finalé. XD
Commando - 'Let off some steam Bennett'
I love Arnie, but that film was terrible for the jokes. "What happened to Sali?"
"I let him go." XD
Barrel roll?
Funniest strike ever 2012 FAIL - YouTube
I honestly don't see what this thread's purpose is other than to increase your post count, because the stuff being posted here basically belongs in Spamzilla o.O
Actually peoples who post here don't care about post count lol.
We putting many things here (questions, answers, ideas), just not to spam main PT1 page.
It started as a joke and it still continue, just to keep up "community spirit".
http://i.imgur.com/59joZ.jpg
What the hell is this thread... I don't even.
hearts, stars and horseshoes. clovers and blue moons. pots of gold and rainbows. and me red balloons.
http://i.imgur.com/iil0h.jpg
lol ... Rowan Atkinson fetishist.
@Yamachi & Darksta: Ask, and ye shall receive ... a WOTSpoiler:
Ah, I see. Well, I'll be off, then :P
I'd say not spamzilla, but the "Entertainment" section since a lot of this happens to be pics / videos.
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http://i.imgur.com/kPaPo.png
Hmm ... okay, maybe I need a "rule" :(: [EDIT]Rule ix I hope it suffices, and we don't need to end this thread. :/:[/EDIT]
Back on the off-topic topic ... :?: I liked this:-That's what I don't like about "religion" and why I won't "sign up". :wink:
lol. It's a good job that armour is so flexible, coz it's useless at stopping blaster fire. A rebel poncho seem more effective. XD
Haha well-said.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
Those ponchos must be made out of Tauntaun hide :cool:
I must teach Google to translate "Huehuehuehu" to "Mwahahahar". XD Who is Hueyoo?Quote:
Originally Posted by gcsilva
HUAHUEHUAHUE BR BR (Animated Version) - YouTube
Google translator is based on documents on the internet not "hard" translation.Quote:
Laughter - most prominent with speakers of Brazilian Portuguese.
The Brazilian equivalent of "haha".
MMOplayer1: "gibe moni plos"
MMOplayer2: "buff plis"
MMOplayer1: "br?"
MMOplayer2: HUEHUEHUE
So translator "could" translate this XD
http://i.imgur.com/lkkyh.jpg
The "capshun" is wrong. It should say "<Control><Break>". ;)
I must try that next time someone posts "I can't connect to SQL" or "My server just crashes" ... "So - It has come to this."
Even better, when some lUser comes into the office and says "Erm... the system made me change my password yesterday, and now I can't remember it?..." or "I'm trying to access the web-page for never-existed-and-never-will.com and I just keep getting 404?..." :lol:
Okay, this one's off-topic, but I feel the need to rant and "rage against the machine". Prepare for WOT! You have been warned.
It was nearly part of this post, but could just as easily have been part of this one. I'm just so damn angry about this issue.
As I say, the problems with MediaFire are probably to do with my ISP. They are also a major record label and video game publisher, and where the first ISP in my country to block Pirate Bay. :(: Having said that, they also made it quite clear that they only did that because they lost the crown court case against taking that action when the govt. asked them to.
I just wonder what the freedom of the internet is coming to when national governments can tell us where we can go and what information we can share. I remember downloading the Anarchist Handbook, Jolly Rogers Cookbook and the Phone Hackers Guide on BBS before we had the Web and 20Meg hard drives, never mind Terrabyte ones. I remember passing video games and coding demos across BBS boards with kids in the USSR doing exactly the same thing and thinking "see, they really are the same as us!" I remember French students organising public protests on government funded public access street terminals to the net, and now I'm facing ACTA and SOPA, FBI site closures and the extradition of Julian Assange for exposing nothing more than the truth.
When next my government criticizes China for limiting public access to the internet and censoring its' peoples freedom of speech and expression, I will laugh in their faces. In fact, every time I am told that my nation has a government democratically elected by it's people to govern in accordance with their wishes I laugh. I thank the Government of China for teaching my Chinese friends how to get around the Great Firewall of China before I needed them to teach me how to do the same in my country.
So that's what I was gonna post before I realised how far off-topic I'd gone. But here's the thing that's bugging me. (since I'm way OT already) It's not an ISPs place to say what people do, or do not do with the internet they sold them. If I buy a butter knife, and decide that I'm going to use it to loosen screws just because I CBA to find my screwdriver, that's my business. It's not like Wilkinson Steel is going to come and reposes the butter knife from me for abusing it! Neither is it any place of the national government. Arrest me; I loosened a screw with a butter knife. So it certainly isn't governments place to tell ISPs to limit what their customers can do with the internet!
This is like "pre-crime". It may well be the position of law enforcement to punish people for things they have done on the internet. (Child pornography, terrorism etc. yea, sure. Software / Copyright theft..? meh, as the law stands... I suppose) But not to physically stop us doing things you don't like. Especially when most normal people consider it perfectly reasonable. You don't fit limiters to every car, you just fine people who speed. (maybe they want to take the car to the track now and then and let rip) You don't insist that every knife be sold blunt and with sharpen-proof edges, you just send people down for stabbing each other! (heck, maybe they where planning on cutting some cheese with that knife) Fact is these sites can be and are used for perfectly legitimate and legal reasons. If you want to punish people for using them illegally that's fine, but don't put us all in a straight jacket just coz some people use their hands for thumping other people! FFS!
I don't really think that telling the truth should be an extraditable crime, but I understand that there is an issue of national secrets being exposed which endangered the lives of under-cover operatives in the case of Julian Assange. So their may be a case to be held. It is my understanding that his defences is that he offered officials the opportunity to redact such sensitive information before publishing. If he can prove that, I think his defence is sound, but I'm not convinced he will get a fair trial. (more like court-marshal)
You can argue the UK gun law is another, much older example of this nannying. On the other hand, I would defend that by pointing out that we really don't have any land open for public hunting, and do not have a legal rite to defend ourself and our family. (we do have e legal rite to expect the local constabulary and armed forces to defend us and our family to the extent that we have no need of arms in the home) We are entitled to a licence to keep a sports gun at a designated shooting range, or on a working farm for pest control. Armed forces and many law enforcement officials are entitled to own and carry fire arms if and when the situations they attend require it. So in reality, our gun law isn't that much more strict than any other. It's just that it's harder to prove a genuine legal reason to have one.
It's not hard to prove genuine legal reasons for having unrestricted access to file sharing sites. In fact, I can see a very genuine risk to the economic efficiency of a nation whose population doesn't typically have such freedoms.
On a wider scale, I am utterly sick and tired of being told how great the democratic system is and watching law after law being ratified against the wishes of the general public but unilaterally agreed upon as "a good thing" by all electable parties in our "democratic" societies. When there is no choice, there is no democracy. Just because you can choose between 3 or 4 parties all of whose policies the majority of the population disagree with doesn't make those policies "the will of the people". All the Pirate Parties, Environmental "green" parties and Occupy movements in the world don't seem to help... and so the only conclusion I can come to is that democracy doesn't work. Voters don't get a say, the only "people" with a voice are people with so much money they don't even care.
Maybe I have a legitimate reason for everyone in the UK owning a gun. Maybe it isn't legal, and maybe I don't care. Maybe I'd like our government to be more scared of not doing what the people want them to. Maybe I'd like them to worry that we may take their "puppet democracy", shove it up their collective butt holes and implement a proper one. One where Prime Ministers could be impeached by the people for failing in their duties and their oaths. One where our political representatives where paid only with tax money, and no more than the average managerial position, and only after they are elected. Where campaign funds came solely from public funds, and never from corporate donations. Where any declaration of war had to be ratified by a general vote. Well... there are democracies where the majority of home owners do carry fire arms, so what's their excuse? :glare:
Maybe such a government would inspire business practices which didn't need national workers unions to constantly call out general strikes to preserve workers rites, or government restrictions to prevent those unions from bringing the nation to it's knees. If the majority of people (most of whom are workers) controlled the demands government placed on industry, a natural balance might magically come about. Who knows! It's not like it's in workers interest for their [strike]employees[/strike] [of course, I meant employers] to go bankrupt is it?
/rant
So... yea. Vormav hates all the Churches in his country, and Sheen hates all the spoon-fed takers in his. That's what I hate about mine. The nanny state and our sham of a democracy.
Amen to that bobsobol.
This reminds me of Ron Paul and his very smart response to some "fat" guy :)
Fat Guy Gets OWNED by Ron Paul! - YouTubeQuote:
Question: Your solutions, on stopping drug trade, is, give up, give up to world drugs. I say zero tolerance, we use the military for aid, we stop it from getting into the country, we cut it off at the source. Why give up on that fight?
Ron Paul: What we give up on is a tyrannical approach to solving a social and medical problem, and We endorse the idea of voluntarism, self-responsibility, family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion, it never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person, it can't make you follow good habits. Why don't they put you on a diet; you're a little overweight, and i think you need government help!
When comes to ACTA and so on... well I don't think that politicians can be "that" stupid; I smell some big money from corporations pumped into government to enforce those decisions. Question is how much money politicians need to stop taking bribes. Private jests, yachts, villas are not enough? Where is the limit? Maybe when they get private planet or galaxy?
Funny thing about piracy is that companies saying they can't stop it and they still making those silly security systems that affect only legal users. If we look at pirated movie or game we don't see 30 minutes of commercials, 5 pages of warnings from FBI or we are not forced to be connected to server that can't even handle that many connections. All this is removed from pirated soft/movies. Looking at this anyone can answer why piracy exist.
I can't run PT server on PS3 unless I hack it... but hacking it is piracy in Sony's opinion. Wait a second I can smash my console into pieces but I can't "edit" it? It makes no sense!
Well yeah bob I hate churches most but government in my country is not better than yours :)
There is even popular joke in my country:
- What are they doing with paedophiles in Poland?
Spoiler:
PS. We should fly planes into government buildings. You will get better WIFI connection in another world! :)
Those companies are just to greedy, an good example is the CD (compact disc, for audio, not data) in comparison to Vinyl records; Vinyl records have a topography that triggers the piezoelectric crystal (in resume, it is a stone that converts impact to electric energy - which sounds kind of 'magic') on the needle which sends the resulting energy to the mixer, and so on.. When recording the first matrix plate of a song (since the 70's, directly from the master to the matrix), all connections are balanced, so there is no distortion and the smoothness/crispness of the low and high frequencies are recorded on the vinyl, just like they were series of little mountains, representing the perfect relief of the sound. Recording vinyls are a more laborious and expensive process than recording cds, therefore, 'the companies' decided to use a cheap digital format.. that even a child could record at home.
And then they complain that people record cd's and stuff, that logic is very similar to a lot of other 'products'.. I begin to think that motor and power companies really did kill that 'clean cheap simple energy from water' dude that gone missing.
I think that quality is the best way to get rid of 'piracy', if 'companies' present people things with quality that they could not do by themselves (well i could not press up a vinyl, but it is an example) piracy would not exist.. If i had a machine that could ""print a car"", probably i would ""print"" a ferrari and get sued for it, etc..
Hmm. Well, we could record on to blank vinyl at the music store. They where wax drums that they recorded on before the disc versions. And they wanted to use CDs (expensive lasers that people couldn't afford at home) to wipe out tape recordings from Radio and Vinyl. :wink: But... CD Writers for domestic use appeared within 3 years of CD audio players. :(: Oops. Still to buy an Album on Vinyl I paid £7, on Cassette it was £5 on CD it was £14!!! WTF!? It cost 12p to press the vinyl 23p to dub the magnetic tape and 2p to press the CD! Where does that make any sense?Quote:
Originally Posted by ScreamingFox
I'm guessing it costs a fraction of a penny to rip the CD to MP3, which is all I do with it when I get it home anyway. :lol:
I fairness, I notice they are giving away a free digital download pass and UMD (USB Memory Device) with an HD copy of films along with most BRDs now. So they are learning.
I think the real answer to downloading "media" is that people don't want to pay an arm and a leg to be cramped into teeny uncomfortable seats in a cold theatre for 3hrs watching a film without laughing (for fear of disturbing others) or getting up to go for a pee or whatever. We don't want to clear our social calendar because we noticed that our favourite TV show is on in the TV Magazine, and we don't want to take a trip to Blockbuster or buy a disc just to watch a back episode we missed because we said "sod it, I'm going out tonight!"
When all these things can be sponsored in on-demand on-line viewing, or possibly pay-per-view in the case of feature films, and the quality is as good as the torrents (if not the BRDs) then I think people will chose to do things the legal way. Maybe not all of them, or all of the time, but most of us, most of the time. Just as it's always been.
There have always been illegal immigrants selling dodgy copies on street corners. Sometimes you buy their wares just because you sympathise, and at least they aren't out-right begging. But most of the time you use the legal outlets... provided they aren't ridiculously inconvenient. And that is the real problem right now.
I love on-line TV. I love TV news from all over the world, which hasn't passed my governments censors. \o/ Hoorey! I love downloads of films I never got around to watching at the cinema that expire a week after I got them... for free! Woohoo! Yea, I probably saw a fair few banner ads surfing around picking what to download, but it was legal, and I honestly don't care if I have to wait 5 years for this years cinema releases to reach those legal on-line distribution sites.
If they want me to legally watch this years film this year, don't premier it in Cinemas. Put it on-line! :wink:
I think they can make it pay. Blizzard distribute their digital download games via torrent. You just pay for the unlock key.
Hosting cost? Recording cost? Postage and packing? All free. (well, they let you download a torrent client from their web-page which is pre-programmed to just get their game torrent, but they'd probably need the website anyway, right?)
How can this not be a profitable way to distribute TV and film legitimately? Music distributors have already "bit the bullet" and moved to iTunes, Amazon and the Playstation Store. (though I think DRM is only fair for a one-off viewing / listening license)
FBI Did Not Steal Megaupload Evidence Because It’s “Digital”?
...arrow to the knee? XD
So if I DL "something" with copyrights I'm not stealing it because its digital? :)
What happens if they (FBI) win? Piracy will be legal act? :)
Now I'm waiting for RIAA or similar organization to defend Megaupload. LOL
The abbrieviated form misses anything of actual value in the argument to play on a cheep pun. Shame.
From the full reportUncontrolled evidence in criminal proceedings is inadmissible. Those drives where analysed by forensic technicians... but such analysis must either be carried out by a non-bias lab, or both the defence and prosecution must have expert witness to the analysis to prove that evidence is not planted and the results are not tampered with.Quote:
Originally Posted by www.stuff.co.nz
The FBI are prosecuting, so they are definitely not "unbiased" and the defence is claiming that not only where they not witness to the examination, but that no independent witness (the local police, for example) was present at the time.I would presume that is to ensure the legal "chain of custody". :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by www.stuff.co.nz
In a TV documentary on the seizure that I watched on RT they pointed out that while Mr. Dotcom was whisked away from his home by the FBI, the seizure of his home and personal effects (including his boats and cars and blah blah blah) was carried out by the New Zealand police. Which is ... IDK ... a reasonable compromise? It's not fair on him, that a foreign power can take him away without proving him guilty of anything at all. But at least the evidence they would need to do so should have remained in safe hands pending the investigation.And yet Microsoft can explicitly say that the High-Encryption Pack for IE cannot be "exported" to certain countries, Oracle can specify that it's software cannot be "exported" to certain countries and the FBI (or was it the CIA?) have made it illegal to "import" the PGP encryption algorithms (in source, binary or even paper print out form) to the U.S. (where much of it was doubtless written)Quote:
Originally Posted by www.stuff.co.nz
Spoiler:
I hate Doritos. They're nasty tasteless cardboard crap that gets stuck in your teeth and hurts like hell. :(
When I use to eat them, they would cut the roof of my mouth :x
I stopped eating junk food ages ago though.
Pear Drops, Star Mints and Liquorish Blackcurrants do that too, but they are worth it. XD
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Originally Posted by The Doctor
Spoiler:
http://imageurl.org/?di=DQLC
British Recorded Music Industry blocked tpb in UK, here is a solution:PirateReverse.info - List of Pirate Bay proxies
List of Pirate Bay proxies
Why its always music industry that block sites like that... srsly...
Because they "own" much more than music. They "own" copyright on many Games, Films, TV Shows and other popular "art". In this particular act, I suspect they are trying to destroy the rise of the next equivalent of "Indie Music£. (music produced, published and distributed by "independent record labels", and not the big, multi-national corporate labels) For a while, in the late 80's and early 90's they started to account for around 40% of the UK top-10 singles in most charts. The big boys countered by buying up all the independent labels, leaving true artists no outlet for their work but the corporations, destroying "Indie" just as it was getting started, and neutering it into "Brit-pop". (a pale and lifeless shadow of it's free, youthful form)
I have been particularly impressed with many high quality bands which where releasing their albums as APE / LAME files on TPB in order to get themselves popularly recognised without submitting to corporate influence. (or, perhaps, because those doors where, for whatever reason, closed to them)
This distribution method doesn't have overheads in CD press / print costs, or even a cost in site hosting. I think it's fantastic. Once their name is known they can set up a store on Amazon or iTunes or whatever they like, without signing away their rights to their own art to some bully who will dictate to them what they can and cannot write or perform. (an imposition which forced artists like George Michael to stop work all together and Prince wasn't even allowed to use his own stage name :(:)
I just use the proxy on the UK Pirate Party Website. They are an officially recognised political party, and censoring them would be *very* controversial. (considering the blatant racial hatred posted legally by the BNP or even UKIP ^_^) We do still have some free-speech.
Of course, the Pirate Party agrees with me, that the the law is breaking it's self with this ban.
Muslim Cleric: How to Lie about Islam - YouTube
Ending of this story ROX!! XD LOLed so hard on floor when friend showed me this XD
I "Like" this religion even more XD
If I would have to choose between a religion, I think Id go with satanism. its really nice, its like, learn to see the god inside of you and you can achieve anything. respect people, dont be stupid, lazy. thats the "main principles" of satanism.
LaVeyan Satanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
lol
A short explanation of LaVeyan Satanism - YouTube
I believe it was the 8th Doctor, in one of the Radio dramas, who encountered a world where everyone had to declare their religion before entering the city. All faiths where welcome, but you had to declare which was yours.
The Doctor (Paul McGann) and his companion Charlotte (Charlie) Pollard, (India Fischer) decided that they worshiped their other companion Keris of Utermes, (a humanoid alien in the habit of changing colour in a chameleon manner and with an exoskeleton) that they held regular feasts at elevenses, and ritually drank a nice cup of tea 3 times a day. XD
Keris, of course, is already a Foundationist Monk who ritually sacrifices people in order to "save them" (no spoilers, we do find out what that means in the end)... so that was okay. :lol:
Posted info on this in the movie section on RZ, but no responses. May do better here in the PT section -- where all the kool people are ;)
Indie Game: The Movie came out recently. It's about independent game developers.
Indie Game: The Movie (2012) - IMDb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhaT78i1x2M
Developers from famous games are in it (Super Meat Boy, Braid, etc)
I'm not sure who would want to watch such a film. Sounds like a fly-on-the-wall documentary of a Pixar movie... Heh.
OTOH, it linked this video as "similar", and it talks about and shows many of the things I was discussing with Sheen regarding game physics in his server emulator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjxNx7xt9AY
I watched it (Indie Game: The Movie). It was good, but they tried to make it overly dramatic at some points.
I may have only liked it though since I've been doing game development lately though.
Btw interesting video.
I found that Settlers install in DOSBox again the other day, and found myself re-dreaming of a Dr. Who themed combat strategy sim. I really want something with elements of X-COM UFO Enemy Unknown, Dune, Laser Squad, Total Annihilation and Settlers, rolled together with all the classic Dr. Who races like Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen, Rootons, Autons, Earthers and Gallifreyans. Each race with their own goals for galactic domination, their own technologies and limitations, and the ability to choose planets to conquer, either for mineral resources or strategic gain, possibly uninhabited with only the natural environment to master (Sim City style) unless another power has set a base there already.
If you could prevent any race from completely winning, or loosing, the game could be made an MMO of a completely different kind. Something more like a multi-world Minecraft. The element of "temporal mechanics" could allow that... but for the non-time capable races, it would be a heart-breaking blow to find Daleks, Time Lords, Humans, Nekistani or the Moanan Host had wiped out everything you did by going back and changing history. :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8hvyjZWHs
"i built alot of bridges, some of them even dance" XD
OT @bobsobol post
I don't like Mac ideas; e.g. mouse with one button, can't use your 2nd skill in PT lol; they also like stupid patents
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq...zjwwo1_400.jpg
They must be patent trolls XD
OFC this paten was rejected in Europe because it was to obvious way, but not in USA...
Also for Mac price I have 4 times 'stronger' PC/laptop lol
That is the most incredible display of ignorance. :O: But I hear it often. Mac OS supported 2 mouse buttons before Windows did. Apple just didn't make *mice* with more than one button until early 200x. How long did you keep the mouse that came with your PC? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vormav;7118416@
The first Mac I got to use was a Mac Classic II running System 7.2 (IIRC) on a 68000 / 68010 with 4Meg of RAM. (remember, 8-Bit computing in the UK was dominated by domestic manufacturers, Acorn, Sinclair and Amstrad, in 16-bit we still tended more to Acorn, Atari and Commodore, even in business) This Classic II had 2 mouse buttons and you used the second for context menus as you do in current Windows systems. (equivalent to a Ctrl Click, but it requires a less precise, less useful Menu key with no click on Windows if the button breaks) It wasn't an Apple Mouse. :wink:
I emulated a system 6 Mac, and installed Excel. The right mouse button worked just fine, :ott1: and Control Click simulated it if your secondary button was broke, or you hadn't replaced you "Apple" mouse yet.
At that time, the right mouse button was not used in Windows 3.0 (the latest, hot off the press from Microsoft) except in MSPaint, which was a complete rip off down to the tool palette, menu options and most functionality, of Mac Paint. GEM 3 from Digital Research (the more common desktop OS for PCs at the time) didn't make much use of the right button either. At least GEM Paint had it's own feel.
Only Amiga and Acorn desktops made as much use of the second mouse button, and the Acorn needed a third to allow any menu to be displayed. (Primary, Menu, Secondary)
Nobody had heard of a scroll wheel, but MacOS 8 used 3 buttons and a wheel just like Windows, only it did it nicer. Like the Middle button and Scroll wheel, a second button is not, and should no be necessary to work the actual OS.
Apple Macs have shipped with a two-way mouse since... Lion / Leopard? ish? At least 2 digital controls is the expected norm by then anyway. Originally dubbed "Mighty Mouse", it has no "buttons" and a track-ball in the middle for scrolling in either direction. The entire mouse rocks at the front to the left for primary click and to the right for secondary click. A bit like a small digital joystick. I think the ball clicks as a middle button on some Apple mice too. It's quite intuitive and doesn't "feel" much different to "buttons" except the puck retains a sturdy rigidity beneath your hand. I found myself lifting the bottom as much as depressing the tip too. But it's not unnatural.
I also think most sane people still chuck the Apple mouse, (not coz of the "rocking" but because it's the wrong shape, and too glossy) and if possible, get a "proper" separate screen. Many people chuck the keyboard too. Any USB keyboard works, it's just confusing that the clover leaf key has a context menu symbol on a Windows keyboard, the Option key is marked Ctrl and the Control key is marked Alt. :/: There are also Windows logos on the Apple keys, and no indication of which is hollow Apple and which is solid Apple. :lol: But Linux calls these keys different things too, and you can get a Linux keyboard with Tux keys and Accel keys printed on it... but who cares? A keyboard is a keyboard... right? Not many PC keyboards have USB hubs in them like the Apple ones either, and that's handy. Many branded IBM ones do and I like to use those to replace an Apple Keyboard cheaply. :D:
I agree about the Patents, and you can slag off Apple hardware all you like as far as price and build quality goes. But I dislike Microsoft stealing everyone elses' programs / designs, putting their label on it and making massive profit form theft. Yea, I don't want people to steal from MS... but that doesn't mean I *do* want MS to steal from everyone else either. They deserve to be paid and insulted. XD Just as Apple deserve to be applauded for their OS, chided for their price tags, have their hardware poked fun of and very rude words said about their patents. :wink:
My experience with mac, true story :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEAGmBRC1dc
"I don't feel like I'm operating the mac so much as I'm just there sharing the Mac experience" XD
Mac fanboys are always deeply hurt, but true about mac is that it lack of software... it's like buying console PS3/XBOX360/Wii for hardware. In the end you will be disappointed because console = games. Games on console are more important than console itself.
Why linux is still not popular on desktops? It rules on servers, it rules on phones but on desktop you need games and commercial soft.
Vale is porting steam to linux, maybe something will move on desktops. Wine is another great project that will let you run old soft/games on modern PC. I don't see any practical use for mac, sorry. :)
BTW you can ask people who played StarCraft 2 or Diablo 3 on Mac and on PC how bad it works on Mac, it's either bad port or bad hardware :)
"There's only one good Mac... McDonalds" XD
Yea! I love that sketch, and shared it with everyone I knew who'd ever used Macs. XD
I can associate with everything he says. But, honestly, that was the change over period between OS 8 and OS X. (OS 9 was the "compatibility layer" so you could run OS 8 software on OS X because .... There was no OS X software when they released it. Remember, it's Y2K.
Classic Macs still didn't have proper multi-tasking and while Steve had been away making NeXT the Mac OS hadn't changed much since that Classic Mac II I used. It got colour screens and more resolution, (Mac2 was "high res" 512 x 384? :lol:) switched (quite gracefully) from 680x0 CPUs to PPC, and became a 3D grey. (about 7.6) But essentially, it was all the same. OS X was sooooo different.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...screenshot.png
This is the pinnacle of Classic Macness. This is why I worry what modern Apple can do now Steve has passed.
http://systemfolder.files.wordpress....t-this-mac.jpg
This is the first release of OS X. ... Woa! Say what!?
It's like Going from Win98 to Vista, only Vista can't run *any* existing Windows software! How would PC users react to that?
Unsurprisingly, many Mac users re-formatted the hard disk of their new Mac and devoted all of the drive to OS 9. XD
Most of those "shutdown" and "system lock up" things he's talking about are all "Classic Mac" problems. They where competing with the constant BSODs of Win9x. And it's the exact same problem, with a different "user experience". Classic Mac had true 32-bit protected memory from first Boot, where Win9x didn't, but Win9x had cludgy multi-tasking (multi-threading) where Classic Mac did not. NT, and OS X pushed all of that aside. NT is essentially IBMs Vax VMS kernel for the PC, (rewrite) and OS X is essentially BSD. (port & fork ... actually fork to Match-O Xen, port and fork again to Darwin)
Dragging files from a CD / DVD to the desktop on OS X 10.0 made a copy. (actually, you couldn't fit many icons on your dektop, and if you ran out of space, you couldn't see them and needed to open the "Home:Desktop" folder in a window so you could scroll down to it, or just look at the "details" file list view XD) In OS 8/9 this was not the case. Anything over 2.88Meg was considered a hard disk and assumed to be "always available". :(:
In 800x600, (as above, and a common maximum res for "Apple" displays) the Dock was unwieldy. And in early Mac versions, you could make the "magnify" value stupidly high, so that the icons where 16px and zoomed to 128 when the pointer was over them. The solution is simple, if you don't know what you're doing, GTFO of the System Preferences! I cured the OS X haters "Every Mac I go to is set up differently and I can't find anything" by locking down all of the system areas from the bash shell and imaging a standard OS setup to all Macs. (Carbon Copy Cloner rocks... I want a version that works on Doze) Users needed to give the network admin password to mess with that stuff, but could "work" just fine. That, funnily enough, made them happy again. :lol:
Renaming system files is also a "Classic Mac" problem, but MS introduced "System Restore" to ME because Windows users where doing the same thing with OS where users regularly operate with "root" privileges. Classic Mac was a single-user system. Even networked, you only needed to "log in" to access network resources. Not to use the Mac! (Mac users where horrified when they had to click on their avatar to get to their desktop even if they didn't set a password too)
I can have lots of fun at the expense of Mac users too. But if you know one end of an OS from another, it's pretty good. Nothings perfect, and I can giggle at Windows users for much the same. Here's a common one, I get with Windows users "I left my pendrive in the PC over the weekend, and now I can't see it in 'My Computer'?" Hmm, well, it will have gone into hibernation over all that time, have you tried un-plugging it, and plugging it back in? Also, try a different USB port. (because you didn't "Safely remove" the device) Also... WTH!!!? You can't safely remove the pendrive and log off before you go away for the weekend? Are you 12 and need to forget about school and go play!? FFS!
The screen grab for 10.0 I took from here and it's a modern Mac user who blogs about "Classic". This OT article, for his blog as well as this thread, is pretty sane. He says he missed these early OS X versions first time around, and I'm sure that's because everybody wiped them and used the companion OS 9 disc. So he also forgets that there was very little you could run that didn't come from Apple. (No Adobe, no Avid, no Macromedia, no nothing!)
He's using a 466Mhz iBook, but I think I was on a 600Mhz iMac / eMac when I played Diablo II and WoW. Diablo II was fine. I couldn't have any complaint, but it was fine on a 166 Pentium too. WoW was pretty good, considering a RISC processor (like the PPC G3, or the ARM CPU in most of your phones) will take about 5 instructions to de the same task as 1 on a CISC processor. (like i386) So you should consider it to be equivalent of about a 133Mhz Intel CPU. My PC was a 1.2Ghz AMD, and cost much less. XD
I worked on Mac very shortly and I just can't get over some bugs, Apple call them "features" =P
I will never get used to default mice, unless human hands evolve into this:
http://i.imgur.com/D3NSD.jpg
Other bad thing about mac is that it's actually one big part...
http://i.imgur.com/YstnL.jpg
I would say I will stick with PC.
http://i.imgur.com/LfQzb.jpg
We can look on how innovative Apple is on this example:
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(248, 247, 244); ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNSn6AtdSGM
I really don't know why people say that Mac is better, first of all in what is better? In look? It's not a platform for games, even linux is doing more in that direction. It's not platform for professional video editing, 3D modeling, music editing, graphic... Mac is like fashion in hipster sense XD
And that's why I think that Mac don't deserver PristonTale port :D
Very far off-topic response to this post.
4shared gave me 15Gig of free storage from which no files have disappeared in the 2 years since I registered. Registration is free, but the files are, now, linked to my eMail address. Uploads made to 4shared without logging in (or if you haven't completed even the free registration) do not stay.
The problem is finding somewhere you can share a couple of gig without providing a valid eMail address, or getting an eMail account which isn't linked to another eMail account which will eventually link back to personal details about your IRL identity.
If such things are a concern for you, then finding a decent host is very difficult. In GNU terms, registration with Google or 4shared is not "free". It may not be charged for, but it does come with attached restrictions and responsibilities, and certainly destroy the freedom of anonymity the internet is famed for providing. :(:
If you are thinking that that is great because it leaves nowhere for paedophiles and pirates to hide, you are correct. However, it's also a bad thing because it makes it very hard for positive activities such as whistle-bowing. Actually, in order to work, many of us take on contractual responsibilities with our employers and trade unions which mean that any private work associated with our real identity is also a reflection on our employer. Private personal works may be legal to share, but in breech of such contracts *if* they can be traced to us personally.
This is particularly important for writers, reporters, artists, engineers and inventors. Software development of any kind is covered by many of those headings. We do write, both code and documentation, we report on security issues, we are termed software "engineers" and we invent new routines and algorithms all the time, and in entertainment software, the level of artistic assets is always high.
Imagine an Artist at Blizzard North has a secret passion for Priston Tale. They would love to create models for the game and share them with us all, but their contract with Blizzard states that any 3D modelling they produce during their period of employment be owned solely by their employer. This is a very common clause in an artists contract of employment, as it's generally understood that artistic inspiration doesn't only come between 9 to 5 on weekdays, and if an employed artist leaves a rough sketch on a napkin in a diner, their employer needs to know that their rivals won't put it up in their game before they go to press. However, Blizzard North aren't ever going to use Priston Tale models, so that article is pointless here.
If that artist hosts those files in such a way that someone traces back their identity and breaks a story "Priston Tale assets created by Blizzard employee" he is instantly dismissed and will find it very difficult to find work anywhere else. If Blizzard want to find grounds to dismiss him without making redundancy payments they may investigate such minor contract breeches themselves. :(:
It has been common for writers with such responsibilities to use a pseudonym, or "pen name" for centuries. With the current level and speed of digital forensic detective work, such pseudonyms must be very carefully thought out and executed if they are to be effective.
Long Long time ago in galaxy far far away on 4shared server I had my first release of ubuntu PT server... it lasted 2 months, end of story, but who knows maybe things changed since than. ;)
Google drive look reasonable, it's also assigned to your mail but google love collecting data. Gmail when started had unlimited space XD but now it's only 10 GB. So things will change... they always do.
If you need valid mail that will not lead back to you than here it is: 10 Minute Mail
Also if you are concerned with with legality of your files you can always crypt data and call it "myfiles".
Piracy is a very long subject and I think everyone should support company they like. Problem is that sometimes you can't...
Let's just hope that blizzard never touch PT '3'. They really know how to make short simple games that will sell when you hype them enough. If they planing to make good games instead then they have a lot to learn...
Here is how D3 should look like: Lineage Eternal: New Hack And Slash RPG Game - YouTube
+ this is MMO, D3 is not a MMO.
Korea know how to do good MMOs and they do lot of them too.
Good tip on 10 Minuet Mail. I used to use Temporary Inbox or Disposable Inbox if I need to respond.
Lineage Eternal looks identical to Diablo III in it's artistic style, but the "gestures" control system looks fantastic. :D: Personally, what I liked about the previous Diablo games was that they where Multi-player, but *not* MMO. It's what I liked about the Dungeon Siege series too. It's nice to play with friends and family, and the open forum on BattleNet was a nice idea for finding new friends on-line to play with before "social networking" was all the rage. However, I made a point never to take Diablo, or D2 on-line, because of cheats (town-kill and hacked items mostly) and because Blizz kept changing my beloved game.
D3 is just the same. Seems they weren't making enough money from the RMAH, so they have just made it practically impossible to get any kind of decent drop except by competing at difficulty levels they initially said they didn't intend to be even vaguely possible. :(:
So I guess I need a private server for that now too. Just so I can retrieve the decent game that was initially released. It's not like it's even that old!
Back at Apple and it's funny mice: I'd love a PC (Windows or Linux) driver for this! It's the same price as a replacement MagicMouse for your iMac. (okay, my dream iMac ... except, I prefer Macs that aren't All-In-One, for reasons Vormav illustrated above)
It's just a Bluetooth device, but I don't have a "rotate" function on any existing pointing device on my computer. Not my Trackball (which does rotate, but that doesn't achieve anything but a pointer giggle) or my tablet. (Still hating those funny hand-held puck devices on any OS XD) If they made 360 Connect drivers before the XBox had them... why not this? And what would rotate do when you're trying to read a badly scanned PDF? ^_^
I LOVE 10 minute mail. Use it all the time :thumbup1:
*DK over and out*
http://i.imgur.com/NPSyE.jpg
@sexypt
Going back to previous version and checking what you changed could fix your problem.
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Originally Posted by bobsobol
My god not apple again XD, touchpad was invented for laptops and is very bad for stationary computer! But for apple anything stupid is "innovation"....
Another stupid apple "idea".
The Nifty MiniDrive - getting it out of your computer! - YouTube
Because "spring" is too "mainstream" XD
Hmm. I've not come across that one before. I can tell you that getting the SIM out of my (second hand) iPhone is a complete arse, and while it's the same size as a normal SIM, it's pin configuration and position is completely different, so I can't switch handsets when the battery dies. (Hey... it's an iPhone... the battery is *always* dead :lol:) The last phone I had, I kept a spare battery charged up and switched those out around mid-day... I really don't fancy unscrewing the bottom of the iPhone, using a sucker to pull the screen out, disconnecting the 3 micro ribon cables which attach it to the main-board and removing the hard-disk to get to the battery and switch it out every day either. :lol: I did like the magnetic clamp-on power line on Mac laptops. I'm forever tripping over laptop power lines to answer the phone or turn the dinner down or something. It's never an issue with a Mac. Yea, they are expensive and slow, but *some* of the ideas like that are pretty neat. I guess you have to try an awful lot of useless ideas to get the occasional nifty one. But fair's fair. They *do* try.
I never plug a "mouse" into a laptop unless the touchpad is broken. But have purchased several keyboards with either a built in trackball or touchpad for my PC, so that I don't need the massive desk space waste of a "mouse". XD Never had a "multi-touch" one though. :D:
I used to love Mac people who lost the floppy disk from their desktop. Mac has no "Eject" button, so if you can't drop the icon in the "trash can" you can't eject the disk. XD Apple recommended a paper-clip to resolve this issue too. But actually, you could send an eject code to the motor by writing a simple program... assuming the ejection motor hadn't packed up.
The same issue does persist with optical drives on a Mac today. But honestly, I can't remember the last time I used my optical drive. :/: I even install from USB or PXE most times. It's so much easier to slipstream the service pack on a thumbdrive or tftp server. ^_^
Hahahaha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vormav
http://i.imgur.com/uyJwA.png
Oooer. Deeper, deeper. Yes, yes. Yes... Oh yes! Right there. Do it! YES!
Hold on... there are people watching us. :O: Is that you mother? :blushing:
No it's me, Steve.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
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I still keeping my optical drive for live CD/DVD in case something goes very wrong >=PQuote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
But yes even MS let you install Win 7 from pendrive using official tool. Some older PCs don't support booting from USB so optical drive is still a must. Most games and apps now have digital distribution so it's not a problem when you scratch/lose CD because only your CD key is important.
I usually live boot from USB too. There are still some 10 year old PCs at work and a couple will only boot USB formatted in a certain way, but they all have the ability to USB boot. Thing is, you can format a USB drive like a floppy, a CD or a Hard Disk. The location of boot information is different in the three different modes, and they are not compatible enough for you to create an image on the device which has the boot code of all three. Specifically, Floppies have no MBR and contain a single partition with no partition table where a Hard Disk contains the partition table (even if there is only one partition) where the floppy would have the boot sector. :S The CD image would usually have the session catalogue there IMS.
Not really, some of my friends still have 'few' (3~4) years PCs that don't support booting from USB, some BIOS don't support USB sticks at all. If you would like to boot on PC like that than you will need USB stick with special chip that will emulate it as external CD drive. I think you still can still buy those somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobsobol
Most USB memory devices emulate a block level device attached to an external IDE controller. If you take an ISO and block level copy it to the raw USB device the stick looks like a CD to your BIOS.
At least, the sticks I've tried always do, but I know what you mean about different sticks working differently. Of course, they all have different IDE controller emulation and stuff. I know it often doesn't work with MP3 players, digital cameras or phones, because their firmware has certain expectations about the filesystem and such. Even a format instruction often fails on those.
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OMG! Was looking up "Goody Two Shoes" for another post, and found this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2a6l6wM2k
Good memories. Adam Adamant owned. XD But wait!!! ... Is that where Jonny Depp got his inspiration for Cpt. Jack Sparrow? :lol:
Takeo Ischi - New Bibi Hendl 2011 - YouTube
This guy is more Bavarian than Bavaria XD
I was told I could introduce myself here
Hi, I'm Adil, a 15 year old with too much spare time on his hands :D. I came to the Prison Tale section after stumbling across some interesting discussions about private server development and client reverse engineering. I also came seeking escape from Habbo (yes, I know, it's a stupid game). Prison Tale also seems like quite an interesting game.
So anyway, hi PT section :D
Hi Caustik!
Yea, PT is kinda old, and unnecessarily complex. Compared to Habbo, reversing it is pretty intense. XD I hope you really do have a lot of free time. ^_^
Have you played PT? Did you get a dev server up yet? If not, here's my number 1 tip, don't try to install it on your main computer. Use a virtual machine instead. :wink:
Good luck. If you get stuck, have a search around and if you still can't figure it out, by all means ask us. Please keep a note of the threads / posts which you tried to follow. That will avoid us pointing you to stuff you've already read that, for what ever reason, didn't help.