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Comment Of course... (Score 1) 473

Of course copyright law isn't working.

Traveling to other galaxies will never work either even if we enact laws to make it so.

These guys just don't get it. There will always be people who steal intellectual property and there will always be people who pay.

Why waste so much time and effort fighting a losing battle?

Comment Links Golf (Score 1) 275

I think MS made a huge mistake selling Access Software which they bought for its Links Golf game. They sold it to Take Two in '04 and it's basically been laid to rest by them.

Looking at the PC golf scene now is a pitiful exercise in frustration. EA quit making PC versions of Tiger Woods golf after the '08 version. Golf gamers only have console versions for now where if MS had kept the Links franchise alive I suspect it would be dominating right now.

EA does have Tiger Woods Online which runs from a plugin to your web browser but they did what many companies do and released it from beta long before it was a real product. A quick look at the forums for TWO pretty much tells the story: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/forums/show/3732.page

Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 362

Just wait till you see Doom 2. 7x 720k floppy disks? No game after Doom come close in making a truly awesome rocket launcher, imo.

Doom2 was the start of an overused greedy "re-label it and sell it again" era.

Doom and Doom2 were exactly the same engine except in Doom2 they gave you a double barreled shotgun and a few new monsters.

The Almighty Buck

EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game 620

An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."

Comment Frame! (Score 1) 253

This is just so ridiculous it has to be a frame or a setup.

Read a news article earlier about a guy in the Midwest that went to the post office to pick up a package and got arrested because it was 7lbs. of pot. So now we can mail illegal stuff to people we hate and get them arrested and ruined for life? Also, there's an article on Fark today that links to a newpaper report about a guy who had his wallet stolen, years later is seems a registered sex offender was using his identity. Now the guy is F'ed because the police cannot remove the alias from the real offender because "the concern is that if authorities delete the alias, the criminal could go back to using it again." The guy is now getting arrested for not registering as a sex offender.

Is law enforcement and people in general really this stupid?

http://www.king5.com/home/Innocent-man-may-be-linked-to-sex-offender-for-rest-of-his-life-98943394.html

Comment Re:Latency more important than bandwidth (Score 1) 199

Any more I find network latency to be alot more important to me than the actual throughput of my connection. Being able to use my remote service software without as much lag is proving to be more useful to me than being able to download all the porn on the internet at 20 Mbps. I am quite happy with my current provider for that.

Thank you for saying this. I constantly tell people here that their speed doesn't mean crap if their latency, or real speed, is bad. They look at me like I'm on crack. Packet loss is another issue and it's ruining my Netflix streaming fun.

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