Gorgon

I used to work 12 hour shifts 3 times a week. I'd be totally wasted when I got home. Now it's the other opposite, 5 hrs a day all week and saturday or sunday, but I can chose freely between the early and late shift. I much prefer it, there's time and energy left over to do other stuff every day of the week.

Without DRM wouldn't the music industry just be saving people the trouble of ripping their CDs. I think you are being a mite too idealistic here. The protections they have now don't amount to much, this is true, but even if it's all smoke and mirrors it still beats begging people to pay you. On one hand you could reach a much larger audience, and on the other you might end up selling just one copy and have that dispersed through the file sharing networks. There have been idealistic attempts, but large scale complete removal of DRM, never going to happen.

A couple of geeks I know are good enough that they can speak Latin with one another. I mean, I suppose it's grammatically interesting, but learning a dead language instead of a living one, seems like an odd choice. Anyway, I signed up for the last part of my Japanese course today, exams are in three months, I'm going to be busy, not half as good at it as most of the people on that course.

How is it? Great. At first I thought it was not gong to be up to par, but once I got into the game my opinion quickly changed. Is it worth reinstalling to play clear sky if you have only recently finished STALKER. Are there new areas, or just a few new missions

I like Stardock's approach, but I wonder if that works with games that don't have a heavy multiplayer element. It works much like an MMO, the real protection is in the online account and online key, which are different from the install keys. I take DRM to mean digital rights management in a broad sense, when steam loads a bunch of drivers, and verifies online before you can even begin to play that might even be considered to be in the draconian end of the scale. Image size is the only valid argument, but it has no relation whatsoever to DRM. I didn't say it did Either way, selling something that is crippled, or doesn't even work 'out of the box' is a piss poor idea.

Steam is DRM surely, what else would you call it.

You mean to say that the vast majority of purchases through I tunes don't have some kind of 'per device' protection.

Um, no, they can't. Blocking the game from connecting to the Internet is as simple as Zonealarm. And they can't bring any lawsuits against you if it's not illegal in your jurisdiction to download games (and, in many jurisdictions outside the US, it's not). Not only that, but the little fish are just too many and too insignificant to go after. Not having broadband has nothing to do with this, as in any case, you wouldn't be able to download it, regardless of anti-copy. If the best argument you can think of for companies still using DRM is "well, they must have a reason, they can't be THAT stupid, right?", then I'll simply refer you to the reason behind it. As one of the fundamental characteristics of the universe, it's not something to be taken lightly. As I said, only those with active consciences pay for games. And, as for SecuROM not being "all that draconian", I guess I just have a very low tolerance for bull****. Spoofing means creating false pirate downloads as well as posting messages that such and such torrent file, crack, application doesn't work, on the major file sharing networks. It is usually not very effective. It's got nothing to do with a game connecting to the internet. Anyway, taken together, fear of lawsuits, spoofs, and the sheer size of dvd disk images all have an effect on the availability of pirated games. If you can't download a game you would have to order one instead. You get me. It's not a battle the companies are winning mind you, but if they gave up control completely they would lose more money. It's not like there is an alternative to trying to protect their work anyway, so inertia in relation to what. The music industry is starting to make money off downloads because they finally understood that impulse buys have to be easy, and the price has to be good. Of course any kind of pay per download scheme would be impossible without DRM.

You don't trust cello players ....

I don't see why, I'm pretty sure men on the whole are genetically coded to be physically stronger, while women live longer.

I played on a while after Barcelona and eventually forgot what I was supposed to be doing. There was some shtick about a chosen one and a prophecy but the difficulty decided to jump from challenging to impossible and I eventually just gave up.

He's Ex KGB, I bet he knows a Vulcan submission move or two

That's fundamentally different from the current scenario of rampant piracy how? You only pay for games if you feel morally obliged to. Companies can control access by actively spoofing pirated copies, and bringing lawsuits against repeat offenders. Also not everyone has the internet connection to download 4-6 gb disk images that often. Obviously these things have an effect on availability or they wouldn't do it. It's not a free for all, especially if you live on campus, or at your parent's, and could get in serious trouble as a result of one of those warning letters.

I wish you could pick and chose what the context menu contains. Sometimes programs install all kinds of unnecessary stuff there. I guess that would be too sensible for windows.

'Studies show'

Well that cleared it up. It's doing what it's supposed to now.

Every game has DRM, that's not the issue, if it didn't publishers would put out a game and merely beg people to pay them. I wouldn't want my wages based on that concept. The problem is the three installs limit. I'm not going to pay full price for a crappy deal like that.

http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?act=idx Some guys avatar.

Top left corner, I get someone's cat/ avatar.

Girl named Sabina who kissed me in gym class. >_

Not that long ago

It's funny how leaders become posthumously loved, like in the US president Reagan can walk on water and shoot lighting balls out of his eyes, a good 30 years after they had to contend with him as president that is. I suspect the same is happening with Blair. Both our prez and the leading opposition contender are slick mini Blairs. I bloody hate em.

Sins of a Solar Empire. Gothic 3, for about 2 more minutes. Painkiller. Stalker - Shadow of Chernobyl.

Now all you need is something to smoke in them.

It's like that 80s porn where all the guys only have half stiffies because fully erect wangs would make it unsellable in several countries.