Comment Re:The Results? (Score 1) 193
Or a clever rebuttal.
Or a clever rebuttal.
Where may one obtain this free willy?
Believe me, it's not hard.
That's pretty much it
Here's a list of 149 films that have used the Wilhem: http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm.html - with the expected links to the story behind the aaaah!
We just planted some, along with onions and corn.
Classic!
So the question remains, is he really discontent or just incontinent?
Discontinent.
Hmm. Does the same "mens rea" apply to that law, or can someone arrange to flash a CP photo on a projector at the next session of parliament and throw the lot of them in jail for a fortnight?
Oh great, another proroguing.
Maybe in terms of usability (i don't know. never tried numbers) but it doesn't have a macro language.
Once I started using vba it opened up so many other ways of dealing with data. I'm surprised I'm defending a microsoft product but I think excel is one of their best.
Numbers has AppleScript and Automator support. I haven't played with it much, and I don't say that it's more or less than what VBA can do, but it's there.
I really doubt this is the case, but given Ubisoft's statement of "It may seem like the crack is working but its not" I wouldn't be surprised if the crack really does not work.
That would be the response either way. Though it would have been funny, accurate, and more surprising if the official Ubisoft line had been, "Shit!! My grandson TOLD me this was going to happen!!"
And the power plug for the laptop is kinda fragile for my liking.
Are you referring to that magnetic connection? It depends on the person, I think. I'm not much for it, but I've got a friend who RAVES about it, it's probably her favourite feature. She's tripping over the cord almost every time she gets up off the couch, and assumes - probably rightly - that it's saved her laptop some serious damage by now. Not owning one myself, I don't have an opinion of my own but I think it's a pretty clever design and it does fit into that "just works" ideal that Apple keeps presenting.
To all those who think Ubisoft should just let the pirates win... you have no idea how frustrating it is to spend many millions of dollars and several years of our life making a game, and then see statistics from our update servers that 15 to 20 people are playing pirated copies for every legitimately purchased copy. PC gamers have $2000+ computers and drop $200-500 on a video card every year. But most of them are too damn cheap to buy their games. They grew up pirating them through high school and university, and don't see any reason they should stop now. Most of them have managed to convince themselves that (somehow) they aren't doing anything wrong.
What is it about adding DRM that actually prevents me from playing your games that will make them NOT be too damn cheap to buy their games? I spend, hrrm
People say Ubisoft shouldn't treat them like criminals. But an unfortunately large majority of PC gamers ARE criminals who will steal any game they can, and justify it to themselves however they want.
Your customers aren't. Don't turn away your customers by trying to magically convert the pirates.
By the way, after the reactions to Spore and Bioshock (and a other heavily DRM-ed titles) we tried shipping the recent Prince of Persia without any DRM. Guess what? It was pirated heavily.. more so than any of the previous Prince of Persia games.
According to sales figures released by Ubisoft Prince of Persia sold 2.2 million units in the first month of it's release. That quarter showed an increase in profits for Ubisoft from the same quarter the previous year, and the percentage of sales that came from PC sales was even with the previous year - not a drop. Dragon Age sold millions of copies without DRM, it's a hit.
So rather than give up on the PC market entirely (which is the other possible solution), we're trying the heavy DRM stuff. Some of those pirates (a small fraction probably) would buy a retail copy if they were not able to easily pirate the game. Most of them won't, and we don't care about those guys -- they can go pirate our competitors' games and thats fine.
I hope you're just as content that I can go buy your competitor's games - and that'll be fine
But after we spend 2+ years with hundreds of people working their ASSES off to make something just to entertain people, we would like them to pay us for it. Is it really so much to ask?/p>
Don't ask me, bub. I'm not a customer of yours, not anymore. Ubisoft clearly doesn't care about my business, with the way they expect to treat their customers, and I don't need them anymore than they need me. And what the fuck makes you think game programmers have cornered the market on hard work? I work hard too, and I'm not spending the money I worked my ASS off to entertain myself with on a company that thinks I'm a second class citizen for being a gamer.
Mine are like that - I watch movies with them I've already seen. They enjoy the movie - yes, I'd think it was ruined to watch a movie that way but they enjoy it. And I enjoy the time with them, since I'm not paying as much attention to the movie and can answer "Who's that guy? What'd I miss?" without missing the movie.Apparently they re-watch the ones they really like when I'm not around, and those times the movie isn't background to my visit - they settle down more, or pause/rewind the movie. When I have company, I don't pause the movie either.
Also, sometimes you can speed up a thing, get the story, but lose a lot by speeding up the pace. It depends a lot on what you're watching, but for some things the pace is as important as the dialogue. Other films are saved, or nearly so, by the time compression.
Who the hell modded that "funny"? It's either "informative" or "insightful".
The funniest stuff is both.
Other apps use and install the Bonjour service.
Bonjour is a general method to discover services on a local area network. It is widely used throughout Mac OS X and allows users to set up a network without any configuration. Currently it is used by Mac OS X and on other operating systems to find printers and file-sharing servers. It is also used by iTunes to find shared music, iPhoto to find shared photos, iChat, Adobe Systems Creative Suite 3, Proteus, Adium, Fire, Pidgin, Skype, Vine Server, Elgato EyeTV to share local recordings with multiple clients, the Gizmo5 to find other users on the local network, TiVo Desktop to find digital video recorders and shared media libraries, SubEthaEdit and e to find document collaborators, Contactizer to find and share contacts, tasks, and events information, and OmniFocus to synchronize projects and tasks across the Mac desktop and the iPhone or iPod touch. It is used by Safari to find local web servers and configuration pages for local devices, and by Asterisk to advertise telephone services along with configuration parameters to VoIP phones and dialers. Software such as Bonjour Browser or iStumbler, both for Mac OS X, or Zeroconf Neighborhood Explorer for Windows, can be used to view all services declared by these applications. Apple's "Remote" application for iPhone and iPod Touch also uses Bonjour to establish connection to iTunes libraries via Wi-Fi.[2]
Google has never purchased a jumbo jet, and neither have it's founders.
The two founders bought a 767 back in 2005. They then had an argument over the kind of beds to put in it. Starting a post with a factual inaccuracy in a paragraph by itself isn't usually a good start.
It's not a factual inaccuracy. The Boeing 767 is a widebody jet, but not a jumbo.The photos immediately above, or a few seconds of fact checking, show the difference. The Google jet is a smaller 767, the 767-200. They bought it from Qantas airlines, who would have carried 180 passengers on it, and the Google refit can board 50. The Boeing 747 is a jumbo jet and can carry about 500 passengers because it is a significantly larger plane.
Not that I see anything evil in buying a plane, nor do I imagine that "do no evil" is often interpreted as more than "do no shit that I don't like". There is more than three words behind the motto. Not that anyone is interested.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
