This clever new DRM system has a nasty side-effect I can't live with. If Ubisoft goes bankrupt or gets fed up with hosting the DRM server, my $60 games dies. They can kill my game at a whim.
This is closer to renting than it is to buying.
I don't want the manufacturer to have a kill-switch for my device. Rather I want myself to have the kill-switch to my device to use as I see fit myself.
Could I screw over a second hand buyer? Sure I could, but he'd know who I was and could sue me for damages if I did, now couldn't he?
There's also trace amounts of drugs on money, let's all paaaaaanic and take everything out of circulation.
Someone should explain these boneheaded idiots that a trace amount nearly nothing and has probably always been there.
I'm sorry to say that the intellectual property tycoons have won the war of artificial scarcity. It's nonsense to restrict the sale of bits, but they seem to have been able to buy laws in most civilized countries that enforce their obsolete business model.
For the normal people like us, there's only one recourse: STEAL THE BOOK.
The giant media corporations have changed popular culture in a boxed culture of artificial scarcity. It a disgusting insult to everything for which real shortages exist, like medicines and food.
Microsoft can't smash the competition in the Netbook market without Windows XP, which itself is a product they can't make a profit on anymore and are desperate to get rid off.
Microsoft has OEM deals will all manufacturers and is giving away rotty Windows XP copies for pennies with every netbook sold. I don't see how this is a major victory for them.
Unless Microsoft keeps giving Windows away for free, they'll slowly bleed to death, despite the "sales" figures.
If managers are to be the nation's greatest asset, then we're all doomed. There will be nobody left without any technical skills.
Sure you can outsource that work, but this causes a disastrous increase in the already epic trade deficit and the Asians are already finding out that they don't actually need the fat manager cats abroad at all.
Only engineers and artists can create things of value. There rest, especially management, exists only to support the people that actually know how to make something.
My answer to any employer who tries these shenanigans on me: "Treat me like a number again and I'll treat you like an animal."
I only work with friends.
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Why aren't tickets sold to name? It'd solve all this stupid scalping stuff.
This clever new DRM system has a nasty side-effect I can't live with. If Ubisoft goes bankrupt or gets fed up with hosting the DRM server, my $60 games dies. They can kill my game at a whim. This is closer to renting than it is to buying.
The only customers of a publicly traded company are the shareholders. The consumers are a natural resource to exploit.
America's fall from grace, causes humanity's fall from space. Will all progress be backwards from now on?
I don't want the manufacturer to have a kill-switch for my device. Rather I want myself to have the kill-switch to my device to use as I see fit myself. Could I screw over a second hand buyer? Sure I could, but he'd know who I was and could sue me for damages if I did, now couldn't he?
Real statistics come with a margin of error. I bet in this case the error is infinite.
It's a very nice aircraft India, now how about teaching the other third of your population how to read?
Okay, this sounds like a joke: A paranoid manager comes to Slashdot to complain about mistrusting outsourced IT labourers. Is this a troll?
Chronic entitlement disorder. A lot of people seem to be suffering from it.
I rather like Ubuntu's YY.MM numbering. It's objective and totally clear.
There's also trace amounts of drugs on money, let's all paaaaaanic and take everything out of circulation. Someone should explain these boneheaded idiots that a trace amount nearly nothing and has probably always been there.
Welcome to the 1990's USA. I've never even seen a car in my lifetime that did worse than that in Europe.
I'm sorry to say that the intellectual property tycoons have won the war of artificial scarcity. It's nonsense to restrict the sale of bits, but they seem to have been able to buy laws in most civilized countries that enforce their obsolete business model. For the normal people like us, there's only one recourse: STEAL THE BOOK.
The giant media corporations have changed popular culture in a boxed culture of artificial scarcity. It a disgusting insult to everything for which real shortages exist, like medicines and food.
People who complain about the "Apple Tax" shouldn't wear Levi jeans, Nike shoes or drink Coca Cola either.
Microsoft can't smash the competition in the Netbook market without Windows XP, which itself is a product they can't make a profit on anymore and are desperate to get rid off.
Microsoft has OEM deals will all manufacturers and is giving away rotty Windows XP copies for pennies with every netbook sold. I don't see how this is a major victory for them. Unless Microsoft keeps giving Windows away for free, they'll slowly bleed to death, despite the "sales" figures.
He's fortunate to not have been beaten half to death while they were at it. It's very easy for the police to claim he "assaulted" them.
If managers are to be the nation's greatest asset, then we're all doomed. There will be nobody left without any technical skills. Sure you can outsource that work, but this causes a disastrous increase in the already epic trade deficit and the Asians are already finding out that they don't actually need the fat manager cats abroad at all. Only engineers and artists can create things of value. There rest, especially management, exists only to support the people that actually know how to make something.
There's more money to be made form an artificially scarce resource. That why we put our corporate benefactors in control of the Internet.
I have that thing. Filled with two 250GB drives striped. The eSata works really really well.
How about some decent lenses to actually *focus* the light onto these fancy zillion megapixel CCD's.
There can be no progress without risk.
It's more likely the effect of colleges overselling themselves to justify extortionate tuition fees.
My answer to any employer who tries these shenanigans on me: "Treat me like a number again and I'll treat you like an animal." I only work with friends.