It appears Cisco has new software - their "AnyConnect VPN Client." I guess they want you to use that now. As an alternative, you could try OpenVPN . I haven't tried it myself, but it looks like a decent alternative. Great to hear you're adding 64 bit support to your games! I look forward to seeing what you can do with it.
[quote]Pursuant to the latter statement, absolutely existing global competitors reach out & expand and seek to control and dominate foreign markets, stifling competition.[/quote] Doesn't even have to be global. Even within a single country, they can form monopolies and stifle competition. That's why we've created antitrust laws. [quote]By the argument you contend, CobraA1, we angry entrepreneurs should simply be able to remedy this injustice and lack of industrial vision b
[quote]Support for Java by installed by default on every machine, client or server.[/quote] After losing their legal case with Sun Microsystems, it's highly doubtful they will ever do that. Microsoft is moving towards C# and Silverlight as a replacement of Java. Despite my love for the Java language and the excellent Javadoc documentation system (beats MSDN, no doubt about it), it's all too obvious that Microsoft never wants to get involved with Java again :(. Sorry. [
[quote]Even when the vehicle is made on cheaper assembly lines, each one is still a representation of capital and each one stolen is a net loss.[/quote] . . . and the reason why games cost $40 or more, which it well above the cost of the CD or DVD, is because it also represents a investment of capital. If it did not, it would cost $0.02. [quote]The source of the problem is the propensity and success of more economically and militarily powerful countries to seek domination of t
[quote]64-bit computing isn't necessarily faster, in fact, due to the larger words you can fill up your on chip cache much more quickly than you might expect...causing slowdows where none were before.[/quote] The cache of the Core 2 chips is more than double the cache of the P4s - plenty more than needed to make up any loss due to increased pointer size. Yes, some of Intel's chips have 12 MB caches (Q9650, Q9550, Q9450, and Q9100) - so what are you complaining about? They are already
[quote]Explorer's stupidity in refusing to save the view (I prefer Details, but apparently Microsoft has a funny definition of all in "use this view for ALL folders") and window size settings depending on which folder you're looking at, which folder you opened it on, what time of day it is, and the color of your coffee mug alone was enough for me to nuke my Vista dual boot and stick with XP. I just don't have time to be fighting my own computer; if it can't work properly and as directed, what
Shelbygt - the 32 bit compatibility is directly from the microchips. It's not something that is emulated at a software level. When a 64 bit OS wants to run a 32 bit application, it just tells the hardware to run it in 32 bit mode. This is why there are virtually no troubles running 32 bit software in a 64 bit OS. As I've said, I've yet to encounter this mythical 32 bit application that does not work with my 64 bit OS within the last year of using this OS. [quote]But I find a l
[quote]I have the ability to run Vista 64 but my system is an Intel P965M chipset and the BIOS doesn't support the memory remapping function to allow me to set my RAM between 3 and 4 GB to a higher address. That means that even though I have 4 GB I cannot access that last GIG regardless of 64-bit O/S or not.[/quote] 64 bit will allow use of all 4 GB and access to 64 bit registers, so there is still some benefit. I don't think it's a big enough benefit to warrant completely replacing t
[quote]A Bugatti Veyron costs signiifcant amounts of capital simply to make and each instance of the product represents hundreds of man hours of work and time.[/quote] I don't go around stealing cheaper vehicles made on assembly lines either. My analogy holds. In fact, the amount of capital and investment is totally irrelevent to the argument. [quote]Software and music products are not the same.[/quote] They're cheaper and easier to steal, therefore stealing is right?
[quote]The ribbon seen in Office becomes part of the OS allowing app developers to have a standardized way of taking their apps to the next generation UI[/quote] This is already available to developers . It appears they're going to use it in more applications in Windows 7, possibly including Wordpad and Paint. Not that I ever use Wordpad or paint. Wordpad doesn
[quote]Thats akin to people with money saying money is unimportant. We live in a media age - people want to have fun.[/quote] We had entertainment long before the invention of the computer, and we have plenty of forms of entertainment today that are not video games. I personally enjoy exercising on a mechanical device known as a "bicycle," and I have friends that enjoy throwing around oddly shaped brown balls. Yes, there is entertainment outside the world of computing. [quote]
[quote]Most software, movies, and music are priced for industrialized nations. [/quote] True, although in nations that poor, I'd think they have more important things to worry about and buy than some video game. Video games are nice things to play, but in the end they're just entertainment and a luxury; one can live without them. [quote]3 activations isn't a prohibitive problem for me at all.[/quote] Problem is, as you have stated, it doesn't do any good against pirate
[quote]When will we all finally realize, most free-market tactics & as a result, capitalism ideology clearly puts 80+/-% of Earth's total population in poverty?[/quote] From what I can tell, it's largely corruption that causes povery, no matter what the underlying economic structure is. I'm willing to bet it's not the principles themselves, but rather abuse of the principles that are the primary causes poverty. [quote]Games allow me to disconnect from the obvious consequen
[quote]This part was addressed in the summary judgement, in MDY's favor. Since a user could theoretically read the entire game off of their hard drive one bit at a time, bypassing Blizzard's security does not qualify as trafficing in illegal decryption technology.[/quote] Partially true - and partially false. The judge ruled this way for the game client itself - but for the "non-literal elements" of the game. It is still going to trial, but only for "non-literal elements" of the game.
"This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy." --Douglas Noel Adams
Good to hear you got it fixed! The BIOS probably just got reset or soemthing. Good to hear upgrading it fixed it. It's certainly good when it turns out to be software rather than hardware :).
GalCiv2 Forums
A game != real life. Fun overrules trying to be physically accurate. I play Falcon 4.0, perhaps the most physically accurate depiction of the F-16 fighter. I spend a good part of hour flying to where I need to be, lock a target, fire long range missiles against a target too far to see with the naked eye, turn around and go home. Truth be known, it's a long period of boredom punctuated by *maybe* a minute or so of excitement if they try to pursue me. I figure space comb
[quote]Also there is an issue with 32bit operating systems and the allocation of the space.[/quote] That should only happen when you're using > 3 GB of memory. It shouldn't affect a system with 2 GB of memory. Considering you lack of success resolving the issue, I suspect a hardware problem. Maybe one of the memory sticks is bad, or maybe something went bad on your motherboard. Or maybe the onboard video, as some suspect. My suggestion is to <a href="http://www.memt
[quote]Which presents a fundmental difference, because although neither faith nor an axiom can be proved, faith describes something that cannot be disproved, whereas an axiom, premise, or assumption is disproved if accepting it leads to a logical contradiction or contradict known facts.[/quote] Assuming the law of non-contradiction holds, of course. Which I think we'd agree is a reasonable assumption. About the "I can't disprove it, therefore it is false" argument: While we ag
[quote]Caesar IV[/quote] Oh dear, that's one of the games I own. Although I don't really haven't touched the multiplayer. I suppose it does have their DRM, though :(. [quote]it's so easy to get pirated games so why people contiue to buy them ?[/quote] Some of us actually have a conscience. [quote] why using copy protection as they are useless some days after the release or in some cases before the release ? why wasting our money to put some prot
[quote]But a general argument that "Well, there *might* be another applicable law!" isn't an argument - there might be an invisible omnipotent deity that created the universe 6,000 years ago with all the evidence that it existed longer built in. Or 5 minutes ago, with the exact same results. It's an "Well, anything could happen" argument. I don't do faith based arguments.[/quote] Depends on the argument. If at least one possibility must be true and you can disprove all of the
[quote]The emmisions laws we have mean we can never get the same gas milage as the euro car.[/quote] Assuming we stick to gasoline.
"Need to update the credits to say (c) 2008" If I remember my copyright law correctly, you generally don't need to change it. It's the date of first publication, not the current date. http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html#notice [quote] What is a copyright notice? How do I put a copyright notice on my work? A copyright notice is an identifier placed on copies of the work to inform th
. . . and forget "activating" the games, simply installing either of the clients requires an internet connection. Just tested on a virtual machine.
[quote]You will need another activation and it will no longer work.[/quote] Dunno about Steam, but Impulse has a backup of my registration keys, which I can create backups of. I should be able to activate them without an internet connection. Dunno about Steam. Here's what I'll do: I'll create a backup of my games, and try to install and activate them on a virtual machine with no internet connection. Be back with the results. In any case: I think the chan