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Comment: Xbox 1080 SE LTD (Score 1) 543

by RMingin (#38833037) Attached to: Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games

Let me show you the future:

You go to the store, you buy a "game". You go home and open the green plastic box, and take out your little slips of paper. You slowly and laboriously enter a long alphanumeric code. Your console blinks some LEDs and talks to MS. Your console puts a light show on your TV and tells you about the ABSOLUTELY BADASS game you just "bought". An hour or two later, it's done downloading and you can play.

There is no used game market, and don't buy games grey market, or you'll get all your games revoked!

Comment: Re:Hmmm (Score 4, Interesting) 388

by RMingin (#38815463) Attached to: Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood

Holy shit. As soon as you look, it's immediately apparent. The creek above the plant is white where there's turbulence, and green where there isn't. At the plant, it becomes maroon. Down where that creek flows into a larger one, you can see a clear tail of the maroon water flowing into the larger green creek.

So even if they had to slap the "UAV" guy on the wrist and throw out the info, anyone looking at Google could have made an 'anonymous' complaint afterwards.

Comment: Re:And they wonder why people pirate (Score 2) 473

by RMingin (#38732356) Attached to: Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games

http://store.steampowered.com/app/9860/

I did misremember the copy protection, though. It's Tages, not SecuROM.

The Steam page states that you get three activations, and after 30 days, they regenerate. This is completely incorrect, you get three activations period, for life, no exceptions.

Comment: Re:And they wonder why people pirate (Score 5, Informative) 473

by RMingin (#38728642) Attached to: Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games

Quote: "I've never tried to crack a game on Steam, because once it's installed and has had it's activation, I've never been annoyed by any Steam game. "

Be careful. Being on Steam only guarantees it has the light layer of Steam DRM, it DOES NOT prevent the publisher from requiring other, more obnoxious forms of DRM as well. I bought that Pitch Black game on Steam (super sale, looked entertaining), but have never been able to play it because it packs in a non-64bit compatible version of SecuROM as well.

Comment: Re:It shouldn't be mandatory (Score 1) 273

by RMingin (#38663348) Attached to: British Schoolchildren To Get Programming Lessons

Nobody (except you, apparently) is talking about mandatory training to become a programmer. This is more like a familiarization course, so that they at least know what a programmer IS and what that job entails. An astounding percentage of people seem to consider "programmer" on par with "wizard" in terms of comprehension.

"Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion." -- Harlan Ellison

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