I'll reiterate it since it went whoosh over your and the angry guy's heads. If you continue to purchase their product, they will have no reason to remove DRM. People not buying DRM'd digital music in droves WAS effective. Notice the Amazon mp3 store? Notice Apple's iTunes offering DRM free downloads?
I really don't care what the alternatives are. Hell download the cracked versions and play away. Just don't give them the same amount of money you would if they didn't DRM the game and expect them to magically "get it" that you're upset. You're giving them the direct message that its ok. That DRM doesn't affect their bottom line.
Insanity is repeating the same action and expecting different results.
While I agree as a technicality you can certainly see how its in bad taste for someone who has just told you that you're an unneeded expense to come back and say they overpaid you for the privilege of disposing of you, right?
Right, so I'll let the suckers go to the casinos, and I'll spend my money in a way that brings me enjoyment. Which doesn't include paying the light and air conditioning bills for a bunch of mobsters in the desert.:)
More aptly, just like with Microsoft, the Television Studios, etc. You're not the customer, you're the product. The advertisers and, in this case, restauranteurs are the customers.
NRS 465.075 Use of device for calculating probabilities. It is unlawful for any person at a licensed gaming establishment to use, or possess with the intent to use, any device to assist:
1. In projecting the outcome of the game;
2. In keeping track of the cards played;
3. In analyzing the probability of the occurrence of an event relating to the game; or
4. In analyzing the strategy for playing or betting to be used in the game,
Ê except as permitted by the Commission.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 970)
The Nevada laws are friendly to the casinos, as they make Nevada a LOT of money.
You do realize that by purchasing the game anyway you're sending the message that the DRM is ok. That you'll still bend over backwards to take it you know where regardless of what the publishers do? If you want to stop game DRM, don't buy DRM'd games. I know that you'll start shaking unless you get your fix, but there are plenty of options out there.
Given that I deal with them on a day to day basis when dealing with displays for the control systems I implement, I'd beg to differ. As many have pointed out, there's a positional difference between the colors of a traffic light. That would be a wonderful implementation in this case that would allow even those not blessed with the ability to discern the difference between red and green, or green and yellow to gain an intuitive graphical understanding of the representation of the data they are choosing to present.
I would get my ass hauled into court if I allowed something like that to go out the door. I have to make choices in symbology that will be understood by someone in any language given that the products I work on are used in every country on the globe.
Wow, you're a douche! I'm not color blind, but there's basic accessibility issues addressed there even if you're not. Don't make the same icon two different colors to represent two different things. Its a lot easier at a glance if you do exactly what the GP indicated, even if you can see the colors.
You're probably the same douche who expects everyone in a foreign country to speak to him in English.
Except it sucks to use a 60 Hz CRT in the dark too. No strobe interference beat there. Plus, Mr. Wizard, if you recall your optics class, the beat is related to the difference between two frequencies, so I would expect a 1 - 10 Hz flicker if that were the effect being observed. Instead I get a barely perceptible intransigence to the image that is high (well to my vision high) frequency.
Its related in the sense that if you say you can't see something @ 60 Hz its an easy way to call BS. If you can see 60 Hz you can see it whether its flicker or motion fidelity.
Except all their doing is fancying up the interface, the drivers are already there for everything. I installed vanilla Ubuntu Netbook Remix on one of these pre-Xmas and it ran perfectly out of the box:
Then drop back and put your CRT @ a refresh rate below 72 Hz and try to type code for more than 10 minutes. Going from 60 - 72 Hz produces an amazing reduction in eyestrain. I would venture that anything about 75-100 Hz is somewhat unnoticeable, but the damned overhead florescent lamps' flicker in this office gives me a headache every day.
The GP was failing to read the text next to the 1% quoted. He was celebrating (falsely) that the Windows 7 Beta got 1% market share. This was false. Whoosh yourself.
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I'll reiterate it since it went whoosh over your and the angry guy's heads. If you continue to purchase their product, they will have no reason to remove DRM. People not buying DRM'd digital music in droves WAS effective. Notice the Amazon mp3 store? Notice Apple's iTunes offering DRM free downloads?
I really don't care what the alternatives are. Hell download the cracked versions and play away. Just don't give them the same amount of money you would if they didn't DRM the game and expect them to magically "get it" that you're upset. You're giving them the direct message that its ok. That DRM doesn't affect their bottom line.
Insanity is repeating the same action and expecting different results.
Or you can simply realize that those that pay the bills hold the leash.
Conceded.
While I agree as a technicality you can certainly see how its in bad taste for someone who has just told you that you're an unneeded expense to come back and say they overpaid you for the privilege of disposing of you, right?
Whoosh!
My point was the link IS there. As opposed to most submissions.
Answer the question Claire!
An actual link to a real blog instead of JUST the link to the no analysis ad revenue suckhole article.
Right, so I'll let the suckers go to the casinos, and I'll spend my money in a way that brings me enjoyment. Which doesn't include paying the light and air conditioning bills for a bunch of mobsters in the desert. :)
More aptly, just like with Microsoft, the Television Studios, etc. You're not the customer, you're the product. The advertisers and, in this case, restauranteurs are the customers.
Sucks, but its more and more true.
As to #4 its possible but not necessary where python lends itself to being readable by default. /ducks
Wrong:
The Nevada laws are friendly to the casinos, as they make Nevada a LOT of money.
You do realize that by purchasing the game anyway you're sending the message that the DRM is ok. That you'll still bend over backwards to take it you know where regardless of what the publishers do? If you want to stop game DRM, don't buy DRM'd games. I know that you'll start shaking unless you get your fix, but there are plenty of options out there.
its an old copypasta
I passed it along to my godson's parents. Not sure if they've read the info before, but my godson is autistic.
Given that I deal with them on a day to day basis when dealing with displays for the control systems I implement, I'd beg to differ. As many have pointed out, there's a positional difference between the colors of a traffic light. That would be a wonderful implementation in this case that would allow even those not blessed with the ability to discern the difference between red and green, or green and yellow to gain an intuitive graphical understanding of the representation of the data they are choosing to present.
I would get my ass hauled into court if I allowed something like that to go out the door. I have to make choices in symbology that will be understood by someone in any language given that the products I work on are used in every country on the globe.
Have fun pulling your foot out of your mouth :)
Maybe YOU can't:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3498
Others have been quite successful.
Wow, you're a douche! I'm not color blind, but there's basic accessibility issues addressed there even if you're not. Don't make the same icon two different colors to represent two different things. Its a lot easier at a glance if you do exactly what the GP indicated, even if you can see the colors.
You're probably the same douche who expects everyone in a foreign country to speak to him in English.
Except it sucks to use a 60 Hz CRT in the dark too. No strobe interference beat there. Plus, Mr. Wizard, if you recall your optics class, the beat is related to the difference between two frequencies, so I would expect a 1 - 10 Hz flicker if that were the effect being observed. Instead I get a barely perceptible intransigence to the image that is high (well to my vision high) frequency.
AC grammar nazi == douche :)
Its related in the sense that if you say you can't see something @ 60 Hz its an easy way to call BS. If you can see 60 Hz you can see it whether its flicker or motion fidelity.
Except all their doing is fancying up the interface, the drivers are already there for everything. I installed vanilla Ubuntu Netbook Remix on one of these pre-Xmas and it ran perfectly out of the box:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=997590
Then drop back and put your CRT @ a refresh rate below 72 Hz and try to type code for more than 10 minutes. Going from 60 - 72 Hz produces an amazing reduction in eyestrain. I would venture that anything about 75-100 Hz is somewhat unnoticeable, but the damned overhead florescent lamps' flicker in this office gives me a headache every day.
The GP was failing to read the text next to the 1% quoted. He was celebrating (falsely) that the Windows 7 Beta got 1% market share. This was false. Whoosh yourself.
Learn to read. It grabbed 0.1%. "one tenth of 1%".
Or, if you don't believe me:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=788169