Sure Nintendo has a bit of a reputation for being rather nannyish but come on, a 4 hour window for 18 rated games? It sounds completely absurd.
I'm guessing this is either complete bullshit, or there's some parental control enabled by default buried in the options somewhere.
This is only for BUYING that 18+ content, you then can play it at any time of the day you want.
Which does not really make sense either, because surely the big problem is not kids buying 18+ games - kids PLAYING those games is bad. And if Daddy stays up late to buy his 18+ triple-X-rated games, those games will be on the console the next day when his kids want to play, so what is the point of this shopping restriction...
The thing about suicide missions most people aren't considering is body disposal.
Well, they thought about that question:
http://mars-one.com/en/faq-en/19-faq-health/205-what-if-one-of-the-mars-inhabitants-passes-away
and the version that hit the torrent sites was a cracked DRM version bought from a shop
Isn't that the point of release groups to "crack" stuff as some kind of trophy ? There isn't a lot of pride in it otherwise.
Yes, the whole point of releasing a cracked game is usually not to make the game available to the whole world for free, that is just a side-effect. The groups want to be a.) the first to defeat the DRM and b.) the one who releases the "best" crack (i.e. game is actually working correctly after removing the DRM). How many people then download the game is irrelevant, it's all about "oh, group xyz was the first to release a working cracked version of that game !"
So it is not THAT surprising that the version of "the witcher" which appeared on the torrent side was based on a DRM'd version of the game, the release groups are not interested in the non-DRM version, because there's no fame to be found in offering a non-DRM game - and why would anybody who bought the non-DRM game upload it somewhere.
I've paid more to GoG than Activision and EA combined.
Yes, I really bought TONS of stuff from them. They have many old games which I want to re-play, but I cannot find my old CDs anymore (or, in the case of Baldur's Gate 2, they they were already barely readable when I bought the original years ago). Especially their bundles are great, whole Baldur's Gate series or whole Neverwinter Nights collection with easy installation - great! Ultima Underworld 1+2 -awesome!
And, like many others already mentioned, even if you can find the old installation media and it is readable, some games might not really work anymore these days on your Windows 7 PC, because they are DOS games. The GoG games come preconfigured with a working DOSBox-Setup. I like fiddling around with stuff on my computer, but when I just want to play that game, I'll gladly fork over some $ for an easy setup.
No, at the bottom so the reader must scroll all the way to the bottom to see the reply.
Nope, best way would be obviously to reply to all, NOT quote the original mail and just write "OK".
Has anyone patented civet-processed coffee? For those of you not up to date on this technology, civet cats eat the coffee berries including the "beans" which are the stones of the berries. After they go through the cat and are dropped behind it, men gather the "beans" and then roast them as usual for coffee beans from other sources. Some connoisseurs consider such beans to be the "ne plus ultra" of coffee.
I guess those civet cats better get a good lawyer, then. Or get a license to poop.
Of course there are speed limits on the German autobahn, contrary to what many non-Germans think. As far as I know, there are even more autobahn-kilometers with a speed limit than without (both fixed speed limits and variable ones depending on traffic/weather/...).
You do not need the keyfob. You need an AUTHENTICATOR. And that can be had for free (on your phone) or even as a free application on your PC : http://code.google.com/p/winbma/
So the extra cost to get the needed authenticator is exactly $0.
ad 4) It is not in Toshiba's interest to run behind 3rd-party sites to make sure they update their outdated manuals.
Also, we have this thing called the "web", which is built by making so-called "links".
Every company, and Toshiba too, has a website where you can select your model and download its manual. Directly from the manufacturer.
https://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_manuals.jsp
I can see why you would want for yourself a folder with the laptops you repair, but it's unnecessary to redistribute.
That said, there is no real reason manuals shouldn't be CC BY-ND or at least CC BY-NC-ND.
I do not think the "manuals" this website was offering are the same "manuals" which you can get via that link. There is a certain difference between an end-user manual (i.e. "do not microwave this notebook or feed it to your dog") and a REPAIR manual, which describes in detail how to access and replace the motherboard and which screws have to be removed in which order to do so.
The free hypervisor is here: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html
You'll need a license key, which you can also get (for free of course) on that website.
I guess quite Valve will sell quite some games to Linux gamers, but it will not change anything about Windows being the main gaming platform for PC gaming.
First, there is the HUGE amount of previous games, which still won't work correctly on Linux. That would mean gamers would have to set up a separate Linux installation, maybe by dual booting or getting another PC, just to be able to play both new and old games - which would also mean having to reboot if you want to play a game only installed under the other OS. Combine this with the second point - that game developers will not suddenly switch to "Linux only", because they still want to sell games to all those WIndows users, and there really is no incentive for gamers to switch to Linux. They still have their Windows OS which can play all old and new games, so what REASON would there be to switch to Linux? There would have to be an IMMENSE advantage to using Linux to play newer games, like either some new AAA games only available for Linux (which won't happen), or the performance difference between the two OS so big that you could get away with a PC a generation or two older than on Windows to play the newest games - and even that would only interest the hardcore gamers, normal people do not really care about benchmark numbers.
It seems contrary to aim at the record for highest downward velocity and the one for longest freefall time at the same time.
Exactly. It is kind of obvious that if you jump from a height not THAT much higher than the previous record and try to set a new record speed while falling down, you won't be able to also set the record for taking the most time while doing so.
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