Why pirate it? Is your sense of entitlement so great that you couldn't simply go without a game that goes against your principles?
Nope. No sense of entitlement, no piracy. I was amazed at how easy it was to just ignore teh hawt n00 gamez completely and just do something else. The Big Blue Room is pretty fun. My Kayak is fun. Walks in the woods are fun. Bicycle rides are fun. Old games are very replayable. GOG is pretty good at offering games I wanted to buy but didn't - more than I have time to play. DRM is a waste of time, because it can't force me to buy the game and it can't make me want the game. It can make me hate the game. The effort spent on preventing piracy is wasted since I don't do it. Really, I don't. Haven't played Bioshock, Portal or any other game made in the last 5 or 6 years. None. I don't miss them and I value my freedom more. I'm patient and will wait for the GOG version to come out, or the bargain bin version, or I just won't play the game. No big loss.
Hey game companies: Spend a little effort on giving me a reason to buy, and you might make some money. Spend effort on trying to control me and you can go fuck yourself.
According to TFA, if the DRM is similar, you *won't* be able to play it now, never mind the future if there are problems and the engineers are on holiday. Yet you can still play StarCraft even today. So what was your point again?
The purpose of the democratic process, which the internet comes closest in form and function, should not be to create a great country, or great works, but to create great people.
Brilliant. (I fixed it a little for you. It reads a little better to me that way).
A long scene in the movie A.I. of an android grotesquerie that should epitomize the "uncanny valley" elicits sympathy, not fear. Why are these characters so easy to relate to? We empathize with them
That is because they are human actors *acting* as androids. Because they are good actors, they evoke sympathy, as they were asked to do, since the scene required it. Even under layers of makeup or prothetics (or even totally digitized as in Avatar) the humanity comes through. I'm not sure actual androids or completely synthetic digital creations could evoke the same response.
If you make your living exchanging your talents for money, so are you. So what is your point?
Stop being so inflammatory. If you have a logical argument to make, make it and we will decide whether the argument is valid based on its merit. Otherwise you just blend into the rest of the noise of modern 'rhetoric' (with apologies to true rhetoric).
You must not be a developer. Even casual development (say you want to manage a few packages for your favorite Linux distro, or track some of your favorite projects via git) can eat up the space pretty easily. 'git clone' enough repositories or set up enough build environments or virtual machines and 100 Gig is gone quickly. Or maybe you are freelancing and need to keep the data for multiple clients on your laptop for site visits. I can't imagine what kind of space a busy graphics artist might need. Oh,wait. Maybe you have a dual-boot machine. 60 gig per OS if you split it evenly? Not enough.
This may not describe the 'very casual user' (aka my dog, because my mother-in-law is already too hardcore for your measly 120 gigs), but you don't need to be very hardcore nowadays to fill up 120 gigs. If that doesn't work for you, then just imagine a teenager with a serious interest in gaming.
You must not get out much, since I have drives on my home file server that are close to 10 years old and still running fine. Or maybe you need to stop buying your drives from the clearance bin.
It's imprecision is also the cause for most of the problems throughout recorded history. It's not the best form of expression, just the easiest for the most people.
Exactly. And further, people that tend to make grandiose proclamations like this frequently and conveniently neglect the technical "how", which often ends up being a huge amount of work if not virtually impossible. I've seen the pattern many times in the context of big data warehousing projects that are supposed to magically unify all knowledge in the company and make everything better. They never do. This smells like the same kind of "if we wish hard enough, it will happen" project.
What are people worried about? That their representatives in the Senate will cast an uninformed vote that does not include input from their constituents (informed or otherwise). That's kind of what a representative democracy is all about.
Thanks for this. Very interesting Indeed.
I'll be very curious to see how the courts handle all this, because on the face of it, this seems pretty damning.
And you immigrated to the US why? (Yeah, I know there are other reasons besides health care, but the Great White North has always seemed a fine place to me, so your post seems a bit self-contradictory).
1) A stupid name. Sorry, but names matter and Ogg Theora is a bad one. When I've mentioned Ogg before (since I like Vorbis audio files) I get some very "Huh?" reactions form non-techies. VP8 is a good name, sounds like a nice tech acronym like MP3.
Abbreviation is a simple fix for that. Hypothetically: Ogg Theora 8.0 = OT8. Hardly different from your "superior" VP8, so potentially an awesome name.
Granted, that was only your first argument, so perhaps the weakest. But there's a cascade effect. Since "stupid name" is easy to correct, the path to "not obscure" (point 2) is less rocky, which leads to "greater install base" (point 3). In fact, the more I consider your arguments, the less water they hold. Please rethink and try again.
You may as well start enjoying long walks outside now, because those services won't remain free either. What are you going to do then, when your only choice is to pay for DRM-locked services in the cloud?
Despite some reports to the contrary, be assured that the security-tracking software has been completely disabled.
I think completely *removed* would be the only assuring thing they could do. Half-measures like this open up re-enabling in the future, whether by the school district, or someone else who now knows the software is present and has in interest in 're-purposing' it.
Actually, I'm pretty sure everyone is fairly close with the current data they're generating to prevent other groups from beating you out the door with your idea.
In the hard-scrabble world of the C-Level Scientist, perhaps. In the circles I moved in when I was a student (top-notch research institute with multiple Nobel laureates [Gilman, Brown/Goldstein, Deisenhofer] and NAS members), this was NOT the norm. A common occurrence was the PI (Principal Investigator) stopping by on their way to the airport to give a talk to see if there was any new data worth putting on a slide. The filter was whether or not the data was good, not whether it was too new to reveal. There was none of this secrecy you speak of. If the practice of scientific research has really descended to the levels you describe, then I have no response other than despair. It was a nice few hundred years while it lasted. Welcome to the New Dark Ages.
And how is this different from a fire or flood or theft that damages a CD collection?
Because digital copies are different from physical copies. Physical copies have certain characteristics that provide added value beyond the content itself. They can be resold, traded, given away, for example. They come with risks, though, one of them being damage or loss. Since duplication is relatively costly, replacement is difficult and involves a non-trivial cost.
Digital media (assuming one doesn't try to treat it the same as physical media) has different characteristics that also provide value, and different risks (can't easily resell etc).
One of the most important characteristics of digital media is that the cost to create a duplicate is quite small compared to physical duplication. That's a big plus and leads to a lot of value-add scenarios. Get a copy anywhere at any time, as long as you can prove you paid. That seems a fair tradeoff for the advantages that are lost relative to physical media.
Your argument (posed in the form of a question) betrays a viewpoint that applies to physical media. You need to learn to think of digital goods differently. As does most of the rest of the world, apparently.
The fact that they feel compelled to constantly ramp up their "force people to buy" measures suggests otherwise. Voting with my wallet doesn't necessarily mean "never give Microsoft money", but it might mean "only buy Microsoft if you have to". 15 years ago, I stood in line outside the local office store before midnight to snag a copy of the latest Windows release (Win 95, which looked much better than Win 3.1 at the time). That was the last time I deliberately purchased an MS product unless a) I got it at an academic discount, b) a discount through work, c) It came with a system I bought. For the last 5 year, I actively avoid them and advise anybody that will listen to do the same. I've since spent more money on "good will" purchases for open source products than I have on Microsoft products. They could have had that money and more if their behavior had been different. The "droves" you speak of may be just a drop in the bucket of the sales they could have enjoyed.
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Why pirate it? Is your sense of entitlement so great that you couldn't simply go without a game that goes against your principles?
Nope. No sense of entitlement, no piracy. I was amazed at how easy it was to just ignore teh hawt n00 gamez completely and just do something else. The Big Blue Room is pretty fun. My Kayak is fun. Walks in the woods are fun. Bicycle rides are fun. Old games are very replayable. GOG is pretty good at offering games I wanted to buy but didn't - more than I have time to play. DRM is a waste of time, because it can't force me to buy the game and it can't make me want the game. It can make me hate the game. The effort spent on preventing piracy is wasted since I don't do it. Really, I don't. Haven't played Bioshock, Portal or any other game made in the last 5 or 6 years. None. I don't miss them and I value my freedom more. I'm patient and will wait for the GOG version to come out, or the bargain bin version, or I just won't play the game. No big loss. Hey game companies: Spend a little effort on giving me a reason to buy, and you might make some money. Spend effort on trying to control me and you can go fuck yourself.
According to TFA, if the DRM is similar, you *won't* be able to play it now, never mind the future if there are problems and the engineers are on holiday. Yet you can still play StarCraft even today. So what was your point again?
The purpose of the democratic process, which the internet comes closest in form and function, should not be to create a great country, or great works, but to create great people.
Brilliant. (I fixed it a little for you. It reads a little better to me that way).
Is letting 'cloud users' access the servers that run out financial markets really a good idea?
No.
Citation needed.
http://www.answers.com/topic/common-sense
A long scene in the movie A.I. of an android grotesquerie that should epitomize the "uncanny valley" elicits sympathy, not fear. Why are these characters so easy to relate to? We empathize with them
That is because they are human actors *acting* as androids. Because they are good actors, they evoke sympathy, as they were asked to do, since the scene required it. Even under layers of makeup or prothetics (or even totally digitized as in Avatar) the humanity comes through. I'm not sure actual androids or completely synthetic digital creations could evoke the same response.
It is precisely this attitude that allows injustice to prevail in the world. Congratulations, you've just enabled evil.
Good news everyone. Icaza is still a whore.
If you make your living exchanging your talents for money, so are you. So what is your point?
Stop being so inflammatory. If you have a logical argument to make, make it and we will decide whether the argument is valid based on its merit. Otherwise you just blend into the rest of the noise of modern 'rhetoric' (with apologies to true rhetoric).
This may not describe the 'very casual user' (aka my dog, because my mother-in-law is already too hardcore for your measly 120 gigs), but you don't need to be very hardcore nowadays to fill up 120 gigs. If that doesn't work for you, then just imagine a teenager with a serious interest in gaming.
You must not get out much, since I have drives on my home file server that are close to 10 years old and still running fine. Or maybe you need to stop buying your drives from the clearance bin.
Methinks you are a fool.
Thanks for visiting my blog as I requested when I submitted my Ask Slashdot question
There, fixed that for you.
They can't fail authentication if they don't know it's there. http://cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
It's imprecision is also the cause for most of the problems throughout recorded history. It's not the best form of expression, just the easiest for the most people.
Exactly. And further, people that tend to make grandiose proclamations like this frequently and conveniently neglect the technical "how", which often ends up being a huge amount of work if not virtually impossible. I've seen the pattern many times in the context of big data warehousing projects that are supposed to magically unify all knowledge in the company and make everything better. They never do. This smells like the same kind of "if we wish hard enough, it will happen" project.
That's ok. You're still Great. Woof!
What are people worried about? That their representatives in the Senate will cast an uninformed vote that does not include input from their constituents (informed or otherwise). That's kind of what a representative democracy is all about.
Thanks for this. Very interesting Indeed. I'll be very curious to see how the courts handle all this, because on the face of it, this seems pretty damning.
And you immigrated to the US why? (Yeah, I know there are other reasons besides health care, but the Great White North has always seemed a fine place to me, so your post seems a bit self-contradictory).
Thank you, Bruce.
1) A stupid name. Sorry, but names matter and Ogg Theora is a bad one. When I've mentioned Ogg before (since I like Vorbis audio files) I get some very "Huh?" reactions form non-techies. VP8 is a good name, sounds like a nice tech acronym like MP3.
Abbreviation is a simple fix for that. Hypothetically: Ogg Theora 8.0 = OT8. Hardly different from your "superior" VP8, so potentially an awesome name.
Granted, that was only your first argument, so perhaps the weakest. But there's a cascade effect. Since "stupid name" is easy to correct, the path to "not obscure" (point 2) is less rocky, which leads to "greater install base" (point 3). In fact, the more I consider your arguments, the less water they hold. Please rethink and try again.
You may as well start enjoying long walks outside now, because those services won't remain free either. What are you going to do then, when your only choice is to pay for DRM-locked services in the cloud?
Despite some reports to the contrary, be assured that the security-tracking software has been completely disabled.
I think completely *removed* would be the only assuring thing they could do. Half-measures like this open up re-enabling in the future, whether by the school district, or someone else who now knows the software is present and has in interest in 're-purposing' it.
Actually, I'm pretty sure everyone is fairly close with the current data they're generating to prevent other groups from beating you out the door with your idea.
In the hard-scrabble world of the C-Level Scientist, perhaps. In the circles I moved in when I was a student (top-notch research institute with multiple Nobel laureates [Gilman, Brown/Goldstein, Deisenhofer] and NAS members), this was NOT the norm. A common occurrence was the PI (Principal Investigator) stopping by on their way to the airport to give a talk to see if there was any new data worth putting on a slide. The filter was whether or not the data was good, not whether it was too new to reveal. There was none of this secrecy you speak of. If the practice of scientific research has really descended to the levels you describe, then I have no response other than despair. It was a nice few hundred years while it lasted. Welcome to the New Dark Ages.
And how is this different from a fire or flood or theft that damages a CD collection?
Because digital copies are different from physical copies. Physical copies have certain characteristics that provide added value beyond the content itself. They can be resold, traded, given away, for example. They come with risks, though, one of them being damage or loss. Since duplication is relatively costly, replacement is difficult and involves a non-trivial cost.
Digital media (assuming one doesn't try to treat it the same as physical media) has different characteristics that also provide value, and different risks (can't easily resell etc).
One of the most important characteristics of digital media is that the cost to create a duplicate is quite small compared to physical duplication. That's a big plus and leads to a lot of value-add scenarios. Get a copy anywhere at any time, as long as you can prove you paid. That seems a fair tradeoff for the advantages that are lost relative to physical media.
Your argument (posed in the form of a question) betrays a viewpoint that applies to physical media. You need to learn to think of digital goods differently. As does most of the rest of the world, apparently.
The fact that they feel compelled to constantly ramp up their "force people to buy" measures suggests otherwise. Voting with my wallet doesn't necessarily mean "never give Microsoft money", but it might mean "only buy Microsoft if you have to". 15 years ago, I stood in line outside the local office store before midnight to snag a copy of the latest Windows release (Win 95, which looked much better than Win 3.1 at the time). That was the last time I deliberately purchased an MS product unless a) I got it at an academic discount, b) a discount through work, c) It came with a system I bought. For the last 5 year, I actively avoid them and advise anybody that will listen to do the same. I've since spent more money on "good will" purchases for open source products than I have on Microsoft products. They could have had that money and more if their behavior had been different. The "droves" you speak of may be just a drop in the bucket of the sales they could have enjoyed.