Thursday, May 3rd 2012
Steam Intros Remote Downloading Feature with Latest Beta
Bid farewell to the misery of being at work when a highly anticipated game is launched, and you have to wait hours at home for the game to be pre-loaded. A new beta version of Steam allows you to manage and install your purchased games remotely, provided your gaming PC is running and has its Steam client connected. The feature allows you to remotely initiate downloads and manage them, via any PC or mobile computing device.
Source:
Rock Paper Shotgun
18 Comments on Steam Intros Remote Downloading Feature with Latest Beta
But you can't deny the fact that this kind of feature is exactly the solution of a *first world problem* ;)
Works better than virukses they actually make you install your own rootkit remote control software to your system and ask you to be happy about it paying on top of that. Self aware? Hell we already have a entirely self aware system in this world.. Corporate world doesn't update core root systems until main updates which makes then 365 days vulnerable clean up and second half gamers installs rootkits which makes 50 times more powerful machines available to run as bots. I wonder when does the time come when we see world wide bot armies with 4-24 core machines going through any security system we have left in this world. ;)
:rolleyes:
My girlfriend for example.. and it drives me f'n nutz!...
Hmm you wanna know why our electric bill, is 300 dollars this month? Do ya really?..lol..
I guess in that aspect I don't like this idea at all. It negates the idea of being "Green" and caring about the world.. One more step, toward wasting more energy and producing more waste..
I mean if people actually leave their pc's on "just" for this reason, all the time. I find it unintuitive and harmful..