I support a lotta desktops and its always a pain to log off user, do your admin, log on user especially if youre trying to do something profile specific.
I found that with IE6/XP if you enable quick launch, rt-click properties, find target on IE6 (lazy way to get to it) I could do a runas admin and have free roam to do what I needed without logging the user off. Killed with IE7. Thx.
There is also an infrastructure problem. My kids who live with their mom ~30 miles away cant get anything but satelite and I have at least one ruralish customer who has no other options as well. They would both willingy pay too much for anything but dial-up (cringes at the thought).
I agree there are people who may not want it, but Id bet that more than 1/2 actually have no choice.
FTFA: "While he says that teens have lost respect for copyright, he lays much of the blame at the feet of the recording industry for their failure to adapt to the online marketplace in the mid-1990s."
This is the entire RIAA problem in a nutshell and I completely agree that *this* is the root of their problem *and* our problem.
They made a choice. They made this choice when Napster (the old Napster, not the castrated one) showed the world how to share, point, click, and download.
The choice was to hold on to their legacy distrobution cash cow and go screaming, kicking and clawing their way into the internet age instead of seeing the digital tsunami heading their direction.
Their problem now is that theyre loosing their brick and mortar base *and* the digital distrobution war and the only way the can maintain any semblance of their arcane business model is to sue the masses into submission, which of course will never work.
The entire DRM/DMCA/RIAA battle was lost before it began. Those who cant evolve become irrelavent and extinct sooner or later...
If you're going to develop software, then you have to accept piracy as one of the negatives.
There is the problem in a nutshell. I dont know of a single downloadable demo that has the option to unlock the full version that isnt some way crackable, hackable, or surf for 2 minutes and get the key or keygen.
You balance the revenue flow from unlockable demos with the quantity of pirated versions you will inevitably have floating around. If that balance dosent work out for ya, you dont allow the unlockables and do something else to secure licensing on your paid users.
IMHO you never, never never have the right to touch the end users personal files in a destructive way.
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I support a lotta desktops and its always a pain to log off user, do your admin, log on user especially if youre trying to do something profile specific.
I found that with IE6/XP if you enable quick launch, rt-click properties, find target on IE6 (lazy way to get to it) I could do a runas admin and have free roam to do what I needed without logging the user off. Killed with IE7. Thx.
There is also an infrastructure problem. My kids who live with their mom ~30 miles away cant get anything but satelite and I have at least one ruralish customer who has no other options as well. They would both willingy pay too much for anything but dial-up (cringes at the thought).
I agree there are people who may not want it, but Id bet that more than 1/2 actually have no choice.
As I type on my computer hooked-up 42" TV, look over at my PDA which says I have new email and surf the local weather on my phone I dont get it.
What is this "No Internet" of which you speak?
FTFA: "While he says that teens have lost respect for copyright, he lays much of the blame at the feet of the recording industry for their failure to adapt to the online marketplace in the mid-1990s."
This is the entire RIAA problem in a nutshell and I completely agree that *this* is the root of their problem *and* our problem.
They made a choice. They made this choice when Napster (the old Napster, not the castrated one) showed the world how to share, point, click, and download.
The choice was to hold on to their legacy distrobution cash cow and go screaming, kicking and clawing their way into the internet age instead of seeing the digital tsunami heading their direction.
Their problem now is that theyre loosing their brick and mortar base *and* the digital distrobution war and the only way the can maintain any semblance of their arcane business model is to sue the masses into submission, which of course will never work.
The entire DRM/DMCA/RIAA battle was lost before it began. Those who cant evolve become irrelavent and extinct sooner or later...
Is there an infrastructure planned to allow for players in one game to invite players from another game to play or is this up to the developers whims?
How long till there is a first party controller with "last-gen" rumble?