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Broadsword whitewashed its plagiarism.
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what'd i miss, who'd they Plagiarize? pm me if they won't let you post it
The ToS from yesterday's publish was ripped off from Sony. See this thread: TOS Agreement ...read it fast
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You know there are still people with metered connections out there right?
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Most companies have it "metered" in the sense that if you use over a certain amount a month they start selling you blocks of data or they throttle you back to dial up.
So... You.... Understand why adding gigabytes of downloads in a month arbitrarily would be a problem....?
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precisely, it is an unnecessary waste of our Data allotment. and regardless of the fact that i get a Terabyte of data a month, i wouldn't want it wasted on superfluous patches. there's too much porn and gun videos for that . . .
Gotten to used to my apparently unmetered 12 meg connection, hadn't even considered that. A couple meg would likely do the trick though, making the script programs to much hassle due to having to continually update them.
The ad blocker I run likely helps though. Not endlessly getting advertisements I don't want, what had often been for something I just bought got really old. All that ad garbage has to add up to a real big chunk of people's metered limits.
Good grief stop with this already. The devs making a patch won't do crap. You think those who designed said software wouldn't simply remove the check. The only thing that this would accomplish is irritating their userbase even more so.
Untrue. A mandatory patch, one that changed the encryption schema of the data stream every few days would cripple the more invasive 3rd party programs.
It would certainly irritate those who use the script programs! The poor souls would have to play on equal terms with others, no unfair advantages, oh such cruelty.
A couple meg patch would take a few seconds and you click a WIN 10 window, no effect on your play, why would eliminating the script programs annoy you?
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patches usually Break UOA too, don't they?
There is a high chance of even the smallest patch breaking UOA, yeah.
A UAC prompt affects all my monitors, and I'm generally watching something via HDMI onto the big screen TV with my wife if we're both sitting here in the living room in the evening. So if I want to start up a game that has a daily patch just for the sake of patching, I have to let her know I'm about to pause it, then hope that the UAC prompt didn't make whatever media player/web player I'm using decide to screw up and have to reload Firefox to get it to start playing again, find where we were previously, etc.
It's just a hassle for non-UO programs and things that don't get along with UAC prompts very well. Which is a lot of programs.
You'll find out when you upgrade from Windows 98
UAC can be turned off. Its not particularly useful for someone who is computer literate.
That is still the most common OS around these parts right? Along with dial-up internet and late 90s video cards?
*chuckles*
O.k., so it's been around a while.
Looked it up myself, User Account Control, a security measure added to Windows.
Still have WIN 98 on an old laptop from the mid-90s. It's got a whole **48 MEGS!!** of Ram,
but it still works unlike a few newer replacements. Rugged little sucker still good for older games that won't run on later Windows. 
Oh, by the way, this tower I'm using right now is running WIN 10 and my current newer laptop bought a year or so ago is still 8.1 and waiting on it's WIN 10 upgrade. Haven't messed with Windows since the early 2000s back when I still had an interest in programming. Pucking up and trashing the operating system then having to reinstall got old. Commodore was so nice about that back in it's day, mess it up, turn it off, then back on, and that nice operating system all safely in Rom would be working again. I initially thought WIN 3.1 was a serious PiTa being so screwupable.
You can just leave your doors unlocked if you're security literate.
If you're relying on UAC for security, you've already lost.
If you're relying on a lock on a door for security you've already lost.
That's all UAC is. Its also incredibly easy for a program, malicious or otherwise, to bypass it entirely without you ever knowing.
If you want to subject yourself to pointless, annoying prompts that's your problem. It gives you something to whine about.