Posts by Kevin 6

Re: Indeed

"Really, publishers should bring back the days of the free demo, for instance, Diablo II had the entire first chapter available as a demo, and it is precisely because of this that I bought the game. Diablo 3 had no demo, just hype, and in hindsight, I might have saved my money, had I known. The cynic might suggest that the reason most publishers no longer offer game demos is that the games are of poor quality and derivative and when people see them, they decide not to buy the full version. In other words, if you offer a demo of a good game, it is a sale gained, and if you offer a demo of a bad game, it is a sale lost."

WELL I know for a fact if I got a demo for D3 I wouldn't have bothered with it. Hell I got a "demo" for Mist of pandaria(the beta), and didn't buy it after being a loyal wow subscriber for many years. Hell if there was a demo for StarCraft 2 WoL I wouldn't have bought it either as after a few hours that game ceased being fun.

To fight piracy is simple give people an incentive to get the legit copy. Blizzard used to be great at this with SC1, and diablo 1, and 2 as B.net requires a legit key to play on their servers. I actually had all 3 of those pirated originally, and I ended up buying them soon after as I felt the value was worth it(I've done this quite often). Now if I did the same with SC2, and D3 I wouldn't have bought them as I stopped playing those after 2 days (aka pissed money down the drain) as neither was fun in the slightest to me, and I've never touched them since.

It seems most companies instead of saying HEY WE MADE A SHITTY GAME NO ONE WANTS instead say OUR SALES DID BAD DUE TO PIRACY PIRATES ARE EVIL NOW LETS PUNISH THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY BUY OUR SHIT WITH DRM THAT IMPEDES GAME PLAY TO FORCE THEM TO PIRACY TO BE ABLE TO PLAY

I am also someone who has like 30 or so steam games, and regularly buy stuff I find fun, and will spend some cash on those F2P MMO's that have item shops. So no I am not some freetard as I will spend money on things I see worth it.

Re: Public Domain

difference in samsungs patents the majority they have is for actual chips used in devices(and apple has not paid to use but get away with), and other things that are required for phones to work

Vs apples rounded corners, and other prior art patents that are for superficial looks.

Apples patents being thrown free domain I won't argue as they shouldn't even be valid in the 1st place, but samsungs actually required R&D money and paperwork that wouldn't fit on the back of a bar napkin.

Re: I wonder how much

well in the states AT&T, and most other ISP's would be ecstatic as after reaming people for the $50 or so a month for 100gigs after its used that all up in a week they could ream an additional $5-10 per 5 gigs every time.

Re: Less is more

Well as for the windows I will agree if you bought a netbook with windows on it yes it ran like crap due to all the crappy trial ware the companies put on them. That and that absolutely terrible bloated program that can make quad core pc's behave like 486's named iTunes killed windows performance. Everyone I ever knew that claimed their windows netbook was too slow I would disable symantec (we fuck up the pc more then a virus) anti-virus, and iTunes, and they would be like WHOA YOU MUST HAVE UPGRADED MY NETBOOK ITS SO MUCH FASTER...

But then again disabling those 2 infernal pieces of software services on any windows PC will free up like 40-60% of its resources though.

Now I have one of the 1st netbooks dell made laying around here with windows XP installed, and honestly I've never noticed any issues with it running or the speed of it. Only issue the dell has (and it seemed chronic) was the damn hard drive's wire comes loose requiring 20 something screws to get to so the cable can be pushed back in. Actually the cable issue is how I got it for nothing as its original owner was so fed up with having to push the cable in 2 times a week they were going to just throw it out.

They ended up buying a normal laptop as by this point the netbook prices were almost the same as the low end laptop prices that eclipsed them greatly.

Re: THere is a shortage of skilled people

Hard to get skills when the bottom level entry positions require 5-10 years exp, over $1k of certs in very niche things all for a whopping $10-12 an hour tops, and HR drones pass over anyone that doesn't tick every box of what they are looking for.

There is no shortage of workers that can usually be easily trained to become skilled, but there is a gigantic shortage of companies that will train new employees, or even give someone a shot.

Re: @Tom 35

Kinda what I was trying to get at this is just to create more money for the politicians to piss away while doing nothing for the average citizens while using trying to help local businesses as an excuse. Basically kinda like most laws of recent...

Re: Wrong solution, as usual

exactly

About 25% of my paycheck is already stolen by the government for them doing jack shit for me. I also have to pay ludicrous taxes on everything else I can't buy online like gasoline (our taxes are over 30% of the price), juice is considered a sin, and has like a $15 cent additional tax on the dollar. Hell we have a tax on bottle water cause its a sin to drink water...

Any wonder people shop heavily online to avoid taxes?

I bet after this is passed you will hear all politicians give themselves a pay raise across the board like the last time my state raised taxes cause we were so broke, the govenor, and all the state legislators gave themselves a 15% raise... While the taxpayers got a 1% cut of pay due to them

Or maybe they could follow suit put a job ad for a CEO that none could possibly fill and bring someone from another country over to act as CEO for $20k a year and no benefits. Cant be worst than a fair chunk of CEO's I've seen at screwing the company up.

Re: Sometimes US Judges act like idiots just to prove a point

The issue from how I read it isn't that he was using it as a GPS, but he was holding the phone, and using it while driving. That is illegal where I live too(no where near California), and can be met with a $250 ticket if I remember it right.

Now if he would have secured it to the windshield or somewhere else, and not had it in his hands he would have been fine. Honestly he was more likely texting while driving than using it as a GPS IMO if he had to hold it in his hands, even if he was setting coordinates in a GPS he should have pulled over, and done it, not do it while moving. A idiot like this deserves the ticket, and like some of the other posts I saw I agree they should reword it to any mobile device not just phones.

Well I tell people all the time the US is not the land of the free anymore, but at least I don't have to eat tree bark as a meal due to the government screwing us over (yet at least...)

Re: Translation

would like to do a minor correction to the last line

Here, have a free crap game on us for being our good little bitches that will require you to buy at least $40 in DLC to finish.

Re: Thoughts..

reminds me of the sims free play for the tablet's requires an internet connection to play. Unless you log in facebook all data is saved on the tablet. It only checks the internet connection at start to see if there is an update cause I've lost connection (was on a extremely weak hotspot), and was able to play like normal till I accidentally hit the bottom button to pull up a menu, that forces it to check the servers again for an update...

I remember when I had to reset my tablet and lost all my play thinking it saved on their servers seeing that is how they made it look...

Well only thing I disliked about ST TMP was its length. It took me like 6 times watching it to not fall asleep usually near the same exact point. 5th time I tried watching it on VHS (1st 4 times was while it was airing on TV), and for the 6th I was like screw it I just jumped to where I nodded off on the 5th attempt, and hyped myself up on caffine. The point I usually fell out was the part where the enterprise is flying with music playing in the background with no action of any kind for like 4-7 minutes(might be wrong on its duration as it seemed like hours)... But outside the extremely long scenes of the enterprise just flying I enjoyed it.

Re: Mobile gaming is a joke

agree tried a few games out on my tablet, and honestly I don't see why people keep saying its going to decimate handheld sales. The on screen controllers I find inadequate for the majority of games outside stuff like angry birds or that one jewel matching game.

And before people start chiming in you could use a wireless PS3 controller with a tablet or some other huge bulky thing that is not portable. You at that point need a dedicated stand, a surface to sit it, and something to carry the extra controller in as it doesn't all fit neat in your pocket.

Re: Completely agreee

Know how you feel my brother is the same way with his kids.

But my brother will go one up if he finds out we bought something for them he didn't yet, he will go out and buy it and give it to them before us so he looks like the hero instead... My brother has some REAL issues.

Funny thing is this year my brother spent way over $1500 on presents for his kids this year (Wii U, pile of other things), and my little nephew is playing with 2 $20 batman toys I got him the most(which my brother said not to buy as he would never play with it) :D

Re: Probably...

ditto, and the way they seem to act, and choose targets it will probably will be the only one

Re: Well...

I went with the galaxy tab 2 7in with a 32g class 10 SDHC card it was still cheaper than the nexus 7, and played every video I flung at it perfectly(what I bought it for)

Re: Anyone seen one in the wild?

Actually yes they have, and plus as someone who's family member owned a pawn shop you would be surprised at what comes in, and how much is stolen property ;)

The days when I used to fix comps, and game systems at the shop I would see people bring in brand new boxed devices that sold for hundreds, and take $40(so you had a good idea they were nicked), but as long as for 1 month the serial number wasn't reported as stolen it could be sold. Seeing they went on sale in October if the law is the same as here its quite possible they could be in pawn shops. Also that is the pawn shops that do things legally, I seen quite a few that will buy something and throw it right up for sale not doing the mandatory 30 day hold.

Re: @Richard Cartledge

I miss my samsung laptop thing worked around 4 years or so, it was HEAVILY used by me too.

Ordered a samsung tablet after I confused it with an iPad.

J/K about the ipad confusion I'd never buy an apple product ;)

Re: 42% of ALL US Upstream traffic used to consume media illegally

when 99.9999% of the stuff is complete crap that has been released by the record labels, and movie industry they expect profits to go up?

Lets face it the VAST majority of movies IMO are not even worth pirating. Lets see there are sequels of sequels, and remakes of remakes of remakes of classic movies, or reboots of the reboot of the reboot of a franchise. Hell I have satellite with well over a hundred channels(98% are crap) and I don't even bother watching the movies on it as most suck.

As for music majority of what I hear for these "musicians" sounds like some auto tuned pile of crap that they just slapped a pretty face on the album saying they "sang" it

Next we'll have software companies following suit I can just imagine MS, or apple doing this OMG WE LOST PROFIT SUE EVERYONE THEY MUST BE PIRATING OUR NEW CRAP OS

Re: Gordon 11's Huh?

@Anonymous Coward

last week...

not saying the hardware setup hasn't gotten way better(will say that end has gotten easy as I remember the FUN it was 10 years ago) just trying to install something not in the repository is a royal PITA like for my VM I had a piece of software to install to get it to function properly in ubuntu the process I will say was very easy, but mandriva I went clicked on the icon it had an install option hit it, and was given a nice lengthy list of commands to type in, and after all was said and done it still didn't work even after all the commands executed... Debian was a few months ago similar experience spent over 40 mins of typing commands to get a program not under the default repository to run, and honestly said screw it half way as I deemed that it wasn't worth the time.

As for windows 7's hardware I'd put it on the same level as I didn't need any additional drivers for my particular hardware (now XP or similar for dells I would say that is a royal PITA)