Posts by Not That Andrew309 posts • joined Tuesday 13th November 2007 14:55 GMT
No, I am moaning about the always on connection because I mostly played Diablo 1 and 2 singleplayer offline and see no compelling reason why I would need to be online were I to play singleplayer in Diablo 3. But I won't be playing Diablo 3.
I'd say that 85% for a game he was unable to play some of the time is insanely generous. No matter how good it was while I could play it, it would not get more than 50% from me. But since I am boycotting it and all other Activision/Blizzard games (the lack of an offline mode in Diablo 3 is just the latest reason) I'll never know how good it is on the occasions you can play it.
Yes, Diablo 2 has problems that spoiled the game for some people. They didn't affect me because I mostly played offline and only played online with RL friends. That doesn't those problems less real though. I Blizzard is trying to fix that issue in the wrong way, though.
While I can understand Blizzard hosting the online game to reduce these issues, it will never eliminate them. The lack of a true offline mode makes me believe this is more about promoting their item marketplace than preventing duping and scamming. That is just a happy side effect.
The corner shops around here sell milk by the pint but the supermarkets sell it by the litre. Strange.
Thats what they what you to think.
Hmm I think you have a point there, but doesn't Xbox use Netflix?
Hmm, try using the official NVidia drivers. The open source Nouveau drivers often have issues with recent hardware. For full support its better to use an older card (2 or 3 years should do).
I'd heard about the child porn problem, but I wasn't aware Google had links to the far right.
Yup, every time I here one of those DVD's go "thunk" in the post pox I wince. Haven't received any unreadable ones yet, luckily.
And their streaming service is still pants. You would have thought Netflix opening here would have given them a boot up the jacksie, but no.
ISP's have never really just been "dumb pipes" in the UK. And they do attempt
to block child porn here (the whole Internet Watch Foundation thing)
As I pointed out to an Anonymous Coward earlier, copyright infringement is hardly on the same level as child porn. Why do people insist on making this false comparison?
And just because founders of TBP behave in an obnoxious and often manner doesn't make it right. Or should we also block the websites of the BNP and any other organisation you find distasteful?
So is that why Netfix and Lovefilm have such a craptacular selection for streaming? Is all the good stuff iTunes exclusive?
Agreed, but that doesn't make this right.
Is it ok to note that if you visit the Pirate Parties website you might find enlightenment, among other things?
While Google is a certainly a better source of links to download pirated material, that its not the only thing they do. They also sell advertising. Whereas TPB only provides links to downloads, the vast majority of which is copyrighted material they do not have the right to distribute
Are you serious or just trolling? Copyright infringement is hardly on the same level as child porn.
It is rather puzzling, maybe St Steve's muesli was disagreeing with him, or something. Nonetheless St Steve did, and El Reg and the writer of the review (Ashley Vance, IIRC) have been on Apple's blacklist since.
You just don't get it do you? If I had anything to hide I wouldn't be bitching about this on a public forum. This is just more security theatre, inconveniencing genuine travellers and having absolutely no impact on the movements of terrorists.
Actually, Apple started it when St. Steve the Astonishing of Cupertino excommunicated The Register over a critiacal but honest review of the Beta of OSX many years ago.
Thats the problem. I have no intention of visiting the States. Ever. Not even on business. But the septics still get informed whenever I fly within the EU. See the problem?
Don't give me your "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" bullshit. Why do the septics need to know that I flew to Barcelona last week?
No idea, but I'm pretty sure AmanFromMars is a ChatBot that became sentient somehow.
Especially as key NoTW staff were transferred to the Sun after the NoTW was closed down, and went to form the core of the Sun on Sunday (AKA NoTW v2.0) staff.
You're joking, right? Compared to Hearst, Murdoch is a promising amateur.
They buy it for the sports section and page 3 girls.
"A story claiming that elephants can fly does not become true (or 'not false') because the story also happens to (correctly) point out that elephants have trunks."
In this case a better analogy would be a story about elephants having trunks making the false assertion that elephants can fly. That does not negate the main thrust of the story which is that elephants have trunks.
There are many things wrong with Ofcom and the concept of Quangos as a whole, but choosing this case as an example of what's wrong is just being plain contrary (or a magnificent troll on your part).
The worst thing they did in this case was not objecting to NewsCorp's effective control of BSkyB at a much earlier stage (despite numerous complaints). And while they blocked the takeover they seem willing for the effective control to remain as status quo.
I could have sworn it was piracy that was destroying gaming - and all the time it turned out to be second-hand games.
I'll agree with you that Tintin takes itself far too seriously, but IMHO the only ones that have dated badly are the early ones - Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, Tintin in America and of course the ridiculously offensive Tintin in the Congo
They should have known there would be a huge take up as there is for everything from the Chocolate Factory. There is no mention of phased roll-outs or having to request its activation anywhere on the site.
AFAIK they actually have been instructed by Congress not to question patents, just issue them.
Friends. Boring, inane and stupid 'til the very last episode. Seinfeld, same.
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Thing is, they didn't publish a "Guys Around Me" app, did they? If they had their argument might be a bit stronger.
Noo, I think he's saying that 90% of the content produced by the Beeb is of no interest to 90% of the population irrespective of income, but the chattering classes can afford to pay for a TV licence they never use, unlike many poorer people.
Anything with Adam Sandler or directed by M. Night Shamaladingdong.
Actually the original Tron is also pretty pants, even though it has some shiny for it's day FX. The sequel doesn't even have the excuse of groundbreaking FX it's just painful. But by no means the worst movie ever.
The worst movie I have seen is some execrable kids movie which my brothers spawn dragged me to when I was babysiting it. Thankfully I forgotten it's name, but the scars will remain. And there was a perfectly good Harry Potter movie showing at the same time, but nooo, it had to see that piece of shit.. I don't think the other moviegoers appreciated me yelling "You've got a goddamn gun! Just shoot the fucking squirrel!" at the screen.
I'm sorry, but you are talking tripe. Jonny Depp turned an adequate performance as |Jonny Depp, as he always does. Wilder's Wonka was inspired.
You don't like Microsoft's "We know best" attitide, but you are switching to Apple, the company that epitomises that attitude? I could understand switching because Metro is crap and OSX is a far better UI than Metro, but switching to the kings of control freakery because Microsoft are getting too controlling? Are you off your meds?
And the landscape is becoming littered with the dead corpses of previous incarnations of these tools, abandoned because their creators got bored, or couldn't be arsed to make the new version compatible with the old version, or DeadRat decided they needed to increase their product support income steam, or all three.
Actually I was wrong in my above posts, but not in the way you believe. Firearms offences have actually decreased.
I found some more up to date and comprehensive statistics. From 2005/6 to 2010/11 it would appear that firearm offences in England and Wales have decreased from 11,088 to 7,024. If you include airguns which most official statisticss include by default, the decrease is from 24,094 in 2003/4 to 11,227 in 2010/11
see http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/crime-research/hosb0212/ (pdf warning)
I stand by my point. Gun and violent crime have remained constant in the UK. Gun crime only increased 40% in the 2 years following the gun ban if you consider arrests for possessing a previously legal weapon. Aside from those, there has been no statistically significant change since 1997.
Almost all of them. Most satellites are in Low Earth Orbit in the (lower) Exosphere (some are in the Thermosphere). LEO is where almost all of the junk is as well. Then there are the satellites in Medium Earth orbit which is still in the Exosphere, as far as I know . Don't think High Earth Orbit is, though, but there are very few up there.
Because ramming the space debris is likely to leave a huge cloud of debris.
Actually, gun and violent crime remained constant, no increase or decrease.
