VISA chargeback ftw. Fraud (non-delivery of goods). Costs them $40ish.
Again, nothing stopping publishers from revoking the ability to play your multiplayer game if you use a key from a different region. (Didnt BF2142 do this?)
Steam adds downloads/updates/etc to existing control methods. You can still copy out game installs and burn/crack them if you are really paranoid about saving your single player experiance.
It was worse. The only entropy was the process ID.
That means the *likely* seed for longer running system processes was in a subset of the low couple of thousand.
For user processes, well starting low and ending higher would eat up keys like no tommorow. One researcher successfully made an exhaustive scan in around 48 hours on a small cluster:S
Thats when you yank the money back off them with your credit-cards fraud protection.
Theres nothing stopping any other multiplayer game from blacklisting your UID, no matter how its delivered. Valve tends to block your account from "secure" servers if you install cheats - they only remove a game if your payment is declined.
If the game has a single player component then you can happily warez it if you care that much, and play on LAN servers (or whatever is allowed without your key).
TBH I suggest it leads to higher license compliance, which means more money for Valve, cheaper games and a better product for me. For my one-time purchase of about half the cost of a standard game theres been three significant content updates and a steady stream of patches. TF2 has been the most frictionless gaming experience I've had (except when those bastards nerfed the Pyro *sad*).
I guess you haven't heard of Steam, Valve's digital distribution mechanism.
Before the Team Fortress 2 release I clicked pre-load, downloading the entire game. Then when I paid (which happened to be a couple of days after release - I was busy) - I got immediatish (decryption time of a couple of minutes) access.
You could have tried this yourself - last weekend was a "Free Weekend", the benefit of digital delivery (and yes, DRM), is that they can yank your game back off you after the weekend is over;)
Yeah the H264 stream (at least when encoded with a decent encoder like x264) is going to be superior to the WMV stream (which at present is yet another mpeg4 variant).
Still, watching flvs full screen in either Opera or IE makes me a sad panda with the tearing. It really seems theres something wrong with how they scale videos. Not that this should be an issue, both plugins should be able to scale video acceptably, and both codecs can deliver both high quality / low bandwidth video efficiently. It just seems odd that I haven't seen a good flv implementation.
Maybe theres something to the MS video streaming services after all.:P
Revenue from this includes driving the WMV stack further into broadcasting, driving the Visual Studio/.Net toolchain adoption, driving Windows Server, and lifting the profile of the Expression series of tools in the artistic community.
None of these are particularily bad things. It strikes me as odd that you expect MS to ignore what is best for their shareholders - despite any legal responsiblity they have.
The competition may want to ask themselves what they have to offer.
SharpDevelop is the leading FOSS IDE for the CLR, and is possibly getting close to the free VS Express editions. Free-with-a-captial-F video formats don't have the Joe Sixpack adoption (last time I wanted to watch a video on Wikipedia it didnt work in Opera or IE - which just gives me a sour opinion of "that silly hippy theora container" - technical reasons aside). I can't comment on Expression Blend - I'm not a graphic artist and I find most mainstream tools counter-intuitive anyway.
As a consumer Silverlight videos make me happy-in-the-pants, as opposed to the grainy software-accelerated flv crap I've been used to. As a developer the toolchain support is second to none (even though I use.Net in industrial automation rather than web at the moment).
Things do not get adoption by being better. They get adoption though marketing expense, blind luck or being first-to-market. MS has to pay money - their MVP+wannabes developer community is small compared to the size of the fanbase someone like Mozilla can leverage by playing the "open source" angle.
Its based on the whole.Net/CLR/managed space. It lets you pick your language - its moving towards the DLR (dynamic language runtime - hello Ruby/Python). Its JIT compiled. You can leverage most* of the.Net framework.
XAML/WPF provides enough view/controller seperation for the large majority of usage.
I can find a lot of things that expose a documented and published interface, the internals of which I have no intention or interest in modifying.
However this technology stack seems to be unacceptable in some people's eyes.
Microcode in a CPU is exactly the same as a binary blob. It is a bunch of non-Free code, which exposes a standard interface which the kernel talks to. Suggesting a thin hardware layer makes things any different than a defined interface in software is ridiculous. You may be able to get an exacting spec for it. It may even be 100% accurate, without anything like the FDIV bug...
I'm interested to see your views on my phone, running Windows Mobile, and exposing one of these documented and published interfaces, would be an acceptable part of a Free software solution, and how this is ethically/morally/asshattedly any different from my CPU, graphics card, or even the IE COM component.
Defeats the argument? The argument as I interpreted was that it doesnt make a hoot of difference if its open source or not - because nobody reads the damn source apart from a small bunch of devs.
By the "open source" metric, you could consider Windows equally "open" (not "free") because any organisation big enough to not be wasting MS's time can read their entire source tree under shared source.
Kinda makes the argument of "many eyes" pretty much a moot point, unless you expect Joe Random to be reading through the OpenSSL codebase and be somehow taken more seriously than any other noob with stupid questions.
Both Linux & Windows are used in companies and defence where people are paid to audit the code. Thats enough for me. My time is worth much more than caring about some binary blob in a wireless driver.
Shouldn't the people who live in the community have some say whether not these services are installed?
Presumably the people who live in the community are paying for it. I'd be fairly confident they aren't building these boxes for fun and expect to be supporting paying customers with them.
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There's no scientific proof that our way is the universal right!
You want scientific proof? How about we come over there and forcibly liberate your ass? We'll bring democracy over there and shove it down your throat until you are shitting freedom.
If anyone here is from the US, please realise that I'm being sarcastic.
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We (Australia) had a guy who was already in prison charged for making hand-written "erotic" stories about 10 year old boys. "Lolita" it probably wasn't, but hey, sometimes you write a masterpiece and get awards, sometimes its a 5 year jail term. Who am I to judge?:P
I'm guessing its like the US health system. Guess you couldn't afford an education?
You should come here, we look after our citizens with free education all the way through tertiary, free health care and government paid unemployment benefits. We also look after our migrants and minorities.
We also let the lower-class countries do most of the fighting for us. So, ya know, keep up the good work in the middle east.
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You must be an EA (cod4) customer ;)
VISA chargeback ftw. Fraud (non-delivery of goods). Costs them $40ish.
Again, nothing stopping publishers from revoking the ability to play your multiplayer game if you use a key from a different region. (Didnt BF2142 do this?)
Steam adds downloads/updates/etc to existing control methods. You can still copy out game installs and burn/crack them if you are really paranoid about saving your single player experiance.
Oh yeah I've seen that bullshit.
To give a car analogy its like bringing my car to fill up with "gas", and having the attendant bitch at me for my choice of manufacturer.
Gas station attendants and web designers are low level positions. If they start giving me lip then I either get them fired, or go somewhere else.
For the record I use Opera. (Because I want a _secure_ browser).
Stop lying. You never even got the source.
Mozilla's money comes from Google. I'd suggest Google is more interested in default-search and browsing patterns for home users over "enterprise".
Apart from the change tracking, workflow, triggers... etc, etc, etc.
Its a poorly designed behemoth, but it does some useful things. SVN would do better, as the merge tool inside Word is pretty damn good now.
If I told you that is what a TPM module can do for you right now, would you still think its awesome?
It also comes with full bus encryption...
It was worse. The only entropy was the process ID.
That means the *likely* seed for longer running system processes was in a subset of the low couple of thousand.
For user processes, well starting low and ending higher would eat up keys like no tommorow. One researcher successfully made an exhaustive scan in around 48 hours on a small cluster :S
Thats when you yank the money back off them with your credit-cards fraud protection.
Theres nothing stopping any other multiplayer game from blacklisting your UID, no matter how its delivered. Valve tends to block your account from "secure" servers if you install cheats - they only remove a game if your payment is declined.
If the game has a single player component then you can happily warez it if you care that much, and play on LAN servers (or whatever is allowed without your key).
TBH I suggest it leads to higher license compliance, which means more money for Valve, cheaper games and a better product for me. For my one-time purchase of about half the cost of a standard game theres been three significant content updates and a steady stream of patches. TF2 has been the most frictionless gaming experience I've had (except when those bastards nerfed the Pyro *sad*).
I guess you haven't heard of Steam, Valve's digital distribution mechanism.
Before the Team Fortress 2 release I clicked pre-load, downloading the entire game. Then when I paid (which happened to be a couple of days after release - I was busy) - I got immediatish (decryption time of a couple of minutes) access.
You could have tried this yourself - last weekend was a "Free Weekend", the benefit of digital delivery (and yes, DRM), is that they can yank your game back off you after the weekend is over ;)
Yeah the H264 stream (at least when encoded with a decent encoder like x264) is going to be superior to the WMV stream (which at present is yet another mpeg4 variant).
Still, watching flvs full screen in either Opera or IE makes me a sad panda with the tearing. It really seems theres something wrong with how they scale videos. Not that this should be an issue, both plugins should be able to scale video acceptably, and both codecs can deliver both high quality / low bandwidth video efficiently. It just seems odd that I haven't seen a good flv implementation.
Maybe theres something to the MS video streaming services after all. :P
Revenue from this includes driving the WMV stack further into broadcasting, driving the Visual Studio/.Net toolchain adoption, driving Windows Server, and lifting the profile of the Expression series of tools in the artistic community.
None of these are particularily bad things. It strikes me as odd that you expect MS to ignore what is best for their shareholders - despite any legal responsiblity they have.
The competition may want to ask themselves what they have to offer.
SharpDevelop is the leading FOSS IDE for the CLR, and is possibly getting close to the free VS Express editions. Free-with-a-captial-F video formats don't have the Joe Sixpack adoption (last time I wanted to watch a video on Wikipedia it didnt work in Opera or IE - which just gives me a sour opinion of "that silly hippy theora container" - technical reasons aside). I can't comment on Expression Blend - I'm not a graphic artist and I find most mainstream tools counter-intuitive anyway.
As a consumer Silverlight videos make me happy-in-the-pants, as opposed to the grainy software-accelerated flv crap I've been used to. As a developer the toolchain support is second to none (even though I use .Net in industrial automation rather than web at the moment).
Things do not get adoption by being better. They get adoption though marketing expense, blind luck or being first-to-market. MS has to pay money - their MVP+wannabes developer community is small compared to the size of the fanbase someone like Mozilla can leverage by playing the "open source" angle.
ECMA-335. IEC 23271. Mono. Moonlight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_(runtime)#Microsoft_support
Get a job, hippy.
You'll like it.
Its based on the whole .Net/CLR/managed space. It lets you pick your language - its moving towards the DLR (dynamic language runtime - hello Ruby/Python). Its JIT compiled. You can leverage most* of the .Net framework.
XAML/WPF provides enough view/controller seperation for the large majority of usage.
It has special sauce for hi-def video streaming.
Its basically flash done properly.
I can find a lot of things that expose a documented and published interface, the internals of which I have no intention or interest in modifying.
However this technology stack seems to be unacceptable in some people's eyes.
Microcode in a CPU is exactly the same as a binary blob. It is a bunch of non-Free code, which exposes a standard interface which the kernel talks to. Suggesting a thin hardware layer makes things any different than a defined interface in software is ridiculous. You may be able to get an exacting spec for it. It may even be 100% accurate, without anything like the FDIV bug...
I'm interested to see your views on my phone, running Windows Mobile, and exposing one of these documented and published interfaces, would be an acceptable part of a Free software solution, and how this is ethically/morally/asshattedly any different from my CPU, graphics card, or even the IE COM component.
Do you consider your CPU good enough? Or if not, which of the zero high performance CPUs with open source microcode do you run?
Defeats the argument? The argument as I interpreted was that it doesnt make a hoot of difference if its open source or not - because nobody reads the damn source apart from a small bunch of devs.
By the "open source" metric, you could consider Windows equally "open" (not "free") because any organisation big enough to not be wasting MS's time can read their entire source tree under shared source.
Kinda makes the argument of "many eyes" pretty much a moot point, unless you expect Joe Random to be reading through the OpenSSL codebase and be somehow taken more seriously than any other noob with stupid questions.
Both Linux & Windows are used in companies and defence where people are paid to audit the code. Thats enough for me. My time is worth much more than caring about some binary blob in a wireless driver.
Except for the non-free microcode in your processor...
Agreed. With such a stupid name it makes me wonder just how many other damn stupid names I'll have to remember in order to configure it to my liking.
Oh... thats in lolfgts.conf, isn't it obvious?
Overrated? This is a damn good and accurate call.
Presumably the people who live in the community are paying for it. I'd be fairly confident they aren't building these boxes for fun and expect to be supporting paying customers with them.
You want scientific proof? How about we come over there and forcibly liberate your ass? We'll bring democracy over there and shove it down your throat until you are shitting freedom.
If anyone here is from the US, please realise that I'm being sarcastic.
We (Australia) had a guy who was already in prison charged for making hand-written "erotic" stories about 10 year old boys. "Lolita" it probably wasn't, but hey, sometimes you write a masterpiece and get awards, sometimes its a 5 year jail term. Who am I to judge? :P
Its not as bad as bloody Java UPDATES trying to sneak the google toolbar in. :(
Out of the 50 million total MMO players worldwide, is this suggesting that every player drops $10 a year to gold farmers?
I'm guessing its like the US health system. Guess you couldn't afford an education?
You should come here, we look after our citizens with free education all the way through tertiary, free health care and government paid unemployment benefits. We also look after our migrants and minorities.
We also let the lower-class countries do most of the fighting for us. So, ya know, keep up the good work in the middle east.