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Friday Freebies now only encrypted for a year and headsups for nonecrypted freebies

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  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100
    Chohole said:
    wiz said:
     

    That last format never makes sense.

    Makes sense to every UK citizen

    How many farthings in thrupence?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited February 2016

    a dozen

    Post edited by Chohole on
  • Hiro ProtagonistHiro Protagonist Posts: 699

    And a threpenny bit is half a tanner, a quarter of a bob, a 20th of a crown and one 84th of a guinea.

  • almahiedraalmahiedra Posts: 1,365
    Chohole said:
    wiz said:
    mjc1016 said:

    How do you SAY the date?

    Nobody starts with the year...so how is that 'rational'?

    Because it sorts correctly in an alpha sort.

    CoolScene-2016-02-14.duf

    CoolScene-2016-02-15.duf

    That's why YYYY-MM-DD is the ISO standard, and not MM-DD-YYYY or DD-MM-YYYY. Dashes, not periods or commas.

    mjc1016 said:

    If you say February 5th, then writing it 02/05/2016 makes perfect sense. 

    Just like, if you say it's the 5th of February, 05 02 2016 makes sense.

    That last format never makes sense.

    Makes sense to every UK citizen

    And Latinoamerica.

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    DMY    Asia (Central, SE, West), Australia (24), New Zealand (5), parts of Europe (ca. 675), most of Latin America (570), North Africa; India (1240), Indonesia (250), Nigeria (170), Bangladesh (150), Russia (140)    3295 million people

    YMD    China (1360), Koreas (75), Taiwan (23), Hungary (10), Iran (80), Japan (130), Lithuania. Known in other countries due to ISO 8601.    1660 million people

    MDY    Belize, Federated States of Micronesia, United States (320)    320 million people

  • almahiedraalmahiedra Posts: 1,365
    hphoenix said:

    Took only a day for the "make a wish" to hit the torrent sites....wonder how long the "canoes" will take?

     

    No much, I can see. Props are not sure.

  • TesseractSpaceTesseractSpace Posts: 1,582
    GiGi_7 said:
    hphoenix said:

    Took only a day for the "make a wish" to hit the torrent sites....wonder how long the "canoes" will take?

     

    No much, I can see. Props are not sure.

    Yeah, already up, sadly. 

  • DavidGBDavidGB Posts: 570
    GiGi_7 said:
    hphoenix said:

    Took only a day for the "make a wish" to hit the torrent sites....wonder how long the "canoes" will take?

     

    No much, I can see. Props are not sure.

    Don't know about Torrent sites, but I see the canoes set is on some non-torrent normal download sites as regular zips, nonencrypted duf and data dsf, metadata, manifest etc standard DIM package with regular DIM zip file name as one would expect for the product, with PoserCF files pack too. (Curiosity over whether the belief expressed by many that the encryption would soon be broken is true or not has gotten me checking a few sites occasionally to see when/if the encryption would be circumvented.)

  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996

    I don't think there'll be any real answer on whether the encryption is working to stop piracy until a very popular item is sold encrypted and then either broken or not. I'd suggest the Trenchcoat as one that I haven't really seen around but I don't have any access to the 'serious' frauding sites to know if it has appeared there.

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,727

    I don't even know where to look for pirated content.  It never even occured to me that stuff like that was available lol. 

  • shadowhawk1shadowhawk1 Posts: 2,203
    Chohole said:
    wiz said:
    mjc1016 said:

    How do you SAY the date?

    Nobody starts with the year...so how is that 'rational'?

    Because it sorts correctly in an alpha sort.

    CoolScene-2016-02-14.duf

    CoolScene-2016-02-15.duf

    That's why YYYY-MM-DD is the ISO standard, and not MM-DD-YYYY or DD-MM-YYYY. Dashes, not periods or commas.

    mjc1016 said:

    If you say February 5th, then writing it 02/05/2016 makes perfect sense. 

    Just like, if you say it's the 5th of February, 05 02 2016 makes sense.

    That last format never makes sense.

    Makes sense to every UK citizen

     

    If you ever work for a State or Government orginization it makes perfect sense as well. 

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943

    Wash down!

    UNENCRYPTED!

    NO ADDITIONAL PURCHASE REQUIRED!

    They washed off the encryption!

    Hoooooooooooooraayy!

    (And an extra thank you to ARTCollab for the window - I hate bathrooms with no window!)

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479
    Kerya said:

    Wash down!

    UNENCRYPTED!

    NO ADDITIONAL PURCHASE REQUIRED!

    They washed off the encryption!

    Hoooooooooooooraayy!

    (And an extra thank you to ARTCollab for the window - I hate bathrooms with no window!)

    I'm pretty sure Wash Down was never encrypted, or intended to be encrypted. It's one of the weekly freebies for PC+ members. http://www.daz3d.com/newsletter/2016/pc/02-17pc/02-17pc.html

    Usually, the product that's free to members is also free to non-member with purchase, so it is nice no purchase is necessary this week.
    yes

    Unfortunately, I don't think it signals anything about encrypted content, one way or another... (And I'm all for encryption/DRM going away.)

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943

    Well ... I am not sure. This may be a test, like how many people are grabbing this freebie contrary to the encrypted ones ...

    The "No purchase required" is written officially in the newsletter, so it is not one of the store glitches that happen sometimes.

    I am happy!

  • Daywalker DesignsDaywalker Designs Posts: 3,586

    I also noticed that the Make a Wish props seem to have been released as a paid Encrypted only download now.

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479
    daywalker03 said:

    I also noticed that the Make a Wish props seem to have been released as a paid Encrypted only download now.

    Both Make A Wish Props and Canoes stated they were free for one week. The Canoes offer will expire DAZ midnight this Thursday, (the 18th,) and then it will also be a paid product. I've "purchased" both freebies, though I can't use encrypted content until I install 4.9, which won't be until I upgrade my computer. (I'm barely getting by now, using 4.8 and without an nVidia card.)

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    edited February 2016

    Wash Down was always unencrypted. I loaded it into my cart soon after Midnight DAZ Time, and it was unencrypted at that time. It's Free with Purchase, and will be "pay for" after the week's over.

    Post edited by BeeMKay on
  • lx_2807502lx_2807502 Posts: 2,996
    edited February 2016

    Yeah, it's the normal PC+ freebie for the week (a really really nice one!)

    Expect a DRM one as a "Friday Freebie" if they do another.

    Post edited by lx_2807502 on
  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    BeeMKay said:

    Wash Down was always unencrypted. I loaded it into my cart soon after Midnight DAZ Time, and it was unencrypted at that time. It's Free with Purchase, and will be "pay for" after the week's over.

    It's free WITHOUT purchase (as stated in the Newsletter by Daz)

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    Kerya said:
    BeeMKay said:

    Wash Down was always unencrypted. I loaded it into my cart soon after Midnight DAZ Time, and it was unencrypted at that time. It's Free with Purchase, and will be "pay for" after the week's over.

    It's free WITHOUT purchase (as stated in the Newsletter by Daz)

    Ah sorry, my bad. I only have the PC newsletter, and it's showing up there as PC weekly freebie... and those are always "free with purchase" for non-PC members.

  • StargazeyStargazey Posts: 270
    Hiro Protagonist said:

    And a threpenny bit is half a tanner, a quarter of a bob, a 20th of a crown and one 84th of a guinea.

    Strange, that although the UK went metric nearly half a century ago, I stll have to walk about a mile to buy my pint at the pub! :)

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165

    Thank you Ann and Frank for the great unencrypted freebie. you guys rock

  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100
    Stargazey said:
    Hiro Protagonist said:

    And a threpenny bit is half a tanner, a quarter of a bob, a 20th of a crown and one 84th of a guinea.

    Strange, that although the UK went metric nearly half a century ago, I stll have to walk about a mile to buy my pint at the pub! :)

    Wait till you see a recipe that says "in a 5 quart bowl, combine 1/2 liter of milk, 500g of flour, 4 eggs, etc".

    I will admit that putting the punctuation mark outside the quotes, Engish style, makes more sense to me than the American affectation of putting them inside quotes.

    But "centre"? Have you ever heard someone say "cent-ree of the earth"? Or "colour". But I've got bigger ghoti to fry.

  • Hiro ProtagonistHiro Protagonist Posts: 699
    Stargazey said:
    Hiro Protagonist said:

    And a threpenny bit is half a tanner, a quarter of a bob, a 20th of a crown and one 84th of a guinea.

    Strange, that although the UK went metric nearly half a century ago, I stll have to walk about a mile to buy my pint at the pub! :)

    Yes, for some reason we did stick with miles and pints, and most people refer to people's heights and weights in Imperial measures. After all these years it's still a mess.

    Oh, and I left out florins—thre'pence is an eighth of of a florin.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Hiro Protagonist said:
    Stargazey said:
    Hiro Protagonist said:

    And a threpenny bit is half a tanner, a quarter of a bob, a 20th of a crown and one 84th of a guinea.

    Strange, that although the UK went metric nearly half a century ago, I stll have to walk about a mile to buy my pint at the pub! :)

    Yes, for some reason we did stick with miles and pints, and most people refer to people's heights and weights in Imperial measures. After all these years it's still a mess.

    Oh, and I left out florins—thre'pence is an eighth of of a florin.

    I remember, back in the day, when we first joined.

    One market I went to, the stall I used a lot, stallholder had a sign at the back. It read  "This is NOT a Common Market, we still sell fabric by the yard."

  • TesseractSpaceTesseractSpace Posts: 1,582
    edited February 2016

    At least the UK has adopted the metric system even if people still use old measurements for informal matters. Here in the US, we still have the occasional mess when someone screws up conversions in dealing with international partners and suppliers in formal business settings.

     

    And on topic, now that there's the expiration date on encryption on the products, I'll get the canoes to use later.

    Post edited by TesseractSpace on
  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100

    Now I wish I'd have gotten the make a wish thing. Hopefully, it will be a freebie again in the next 11.5 months.

    This is a new concept, putting freebies up on the shelf to age like wines. ;)

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    Hiro Protagonist said:

    And a threpenny bit is half a tanner, a quarter of a bob, a 20th of a crown and one 84th of a guinea.

    I thought it was two frogbacks to a seventeenth of a Tim and two Bobs to a half knobwobbler... This stupid calculator is so messed up, because even if I divide the knobwobbler by half I still get twelve point two crumpets... It's really not worth the three and half gerbils I paid for it, which is really sad because for just two stagknuckles and a plinket more I could have gotten the deluxe model with buttons on it. Well, either way I'm still off by a Bob.

  • Hiro ProtagonistHiro Protagonist Posts: 699
    Chohole said:
    Hiro Protagonist said:
    Stargazey said:
    Hiro Protagonist said:

    And a threpenny bit is half a tanner, a quarter of a bob, a 20th of a crown and one 84th of a guinea.

    Strange, that although the UK went metric nearly half a century ago, I stll have to walk about a mile to buy my pint at the pub! :)

    Yes, for some reason we did stick with miles and pints, and most people refer to people's heights and weights in Imperial measures. After all these years it's still a mess.

    Oh, and I left out florins—thre'pence is an eighth of of a florin.

    I remember, back in the day, when we first joined.

    One market I went to, the stall I used a lot, stallholder had a sign at the back. It read  "This is NOT a Common Market, we still sell fabric by the yard."

    And there's a pub called the King's Head Theatre, in London, that was still calculating prices in pounds, shillings and pence apparently until 2008!

  • Hiro ProtagonistHiro Protagonist Posts: 699
    McGyver said:
    Hiro Protagonist said:

    I thought it was two frogbacks to a seventeenth of a Tim and two Bobs to a half knobwobbler... This stupid calculator is so messed up, because even if I divide the knobwobbler by half I still get twelve point two crumpets... It's really not worth the three and half gerbils I paid for it, which is really sad because for just two stagknuckles and a plinket more I could have gotten the deluxe model with buttons on it. Well, either way I'm still off by a Bob.

    Well a bob is now the smallest coin of the realm (in size if not value, but even then there's not much you can buy for 5p) so I wouldn't worry about it too much. I don't know about gerbils, but 500 quid (a quid being another word for a pound, which I also forgot to mention) is known as a "monkey" in certain circles, and £25 is a pony.

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