Tell that to anyone using a transmission electron microscope. I have friends who dislike the digital microscopy due to the detail being much lower than film. While it is quicker and less susceptible to movement problems, you lose most of the detail due to the electrons being far smaller than the CMOS sensor's pixels.
I really think this jaded "we don't need any more technology" bullshit is just a modern day luddite attitude. It seems to be a fear of being superseded with the technology you currently use. Maybe it's that or the fear that the camera(s) you spent thousands of dollars on are made redundant by this tech. Heaven forbid that an amateur can start taking photos better than pros.
I remember people said similar stuff when digital photography came in, now it's the standard.
Your incoherent ramblings are a blight on slashdot and have been for some time. You make no sense at all. All you come across as is someone who has no idea what they are talking about with a grudge against geeks/nerds (amusing for someone posting on slashdot).
GPL most certainly does not restrict USE at all. It is restricting whether you can close source it without contributing back. You are free to use the code as you want, the restriction doesn't actually stop you from using the code, just stops you from distributing it.
How this is a parallel to DRM I have no idea. Maybe you can enlighten us with your all encompassing knowledge.
I really think you've started with a flawed premise.
I've actually found that users LOVE web apps if they do what they're intended to do AND the company is willing to move beyond the IE6 sphere of stupidity.
I was working for a media company and they deployed a web app that made it easier for journos to submit stories, the only desktop app required was used by the editors. No longer did they have to log in to a VPN and run a very network intensive publishing app via satellite from remote places just to submit the story. They could submit stories written in say notepad and copied & pasted into this app. The same company uses many other web apps that users like. The only time there's a complaint is when the developers screw up and break the app. This happens with ALL apps (same publishing app mentioned before broke almost weekly and it is not a web app).
There's many other web apps (including Google Documents) that are giving users a fresh look on web apps. While I can understand people's hesitations, I remember the good old days of crummy web apps crashing your computer and chewing processor time like there's no tomorrow, I do feel that we'll see a fundamental shift from local to cloud apps in the near future by choice. My father at 67 has moved entirely to OpenOffice with Google Docs sync as he writes a lot on the road. For me, this is a sign of just how little hold Microsoft really has on the end user market.
It seems the ONLY people I see complaining these days are people who work in IT. I'm not sure if these people have just not spoken to their users in 10 years, the web apps they deploy are crap, or that they fear their own expendability in the coming years.
It's just amusing that it's so close to the release that we've seen it happen. If people don't wake up and smell the coffee on this one we'll all be bent over a barrel with every new game release from now on.
There's no way that an home user can afford five nines internet access, so even if it isn't the authentication server end that's a problem, well, you're screwed anyway. Hell, if there's problems at higher tier routing you're probably going to be screwed anyway. I've seen this happen before with MMOs. If the servers were hosted locally (ie, in Australia, where I am from) we'd still be able to connect, but due to international routing problems no one in Australia was able to play. I know that's a bit off topic, but it seems to me that warning signs like that dictate that moving down a server authentication method for a single player game is fucking stupid.
Unfortunately the people who make decisions about protecting profits aren't exactly technologically proficient, let alone able to understand the intricacies in a global network like the internet. I doubt the team that programs the game even has anything to do the team programming the DRM other than having to somehow work it into their product.
In essence, what Ubisoft here has done is given people a real reason to boycott their products in a major way. I can't say I've seen a grass roots boycott take off, but when you shit on your customers you essentially force the boycott through ineptitude.
True, time will tell on this one, but I doubt it will be long before Ubisoft make the decision to take the same route as EA by rolling back DRM - well, that or their stock will tank and the company will go under.
So what you're saying is that it's ok for companies to dick 99.7% of their customer base, who would never pirate the game in the first place, just to delay downloaders from getting it by a day?
I love that kind of rationale.
See, it's not about the 99.7% of people. They buy the game, whether it's easy to crack or not. To me, fucking them over isn't a good thing at all, you lose 99.7% of your revenue. Look at what happened with EA. They screwed consumers with Spore, they saw the outrage from the people who don't download, and changed tactics. I even recall an article a little while ago where EA were contemplating not locking pirates out of buying DLC.
Unfortunately it seems that the company gamers love to hate, EA, is learning from their mistakes. Unfortunately companies like Ubisoft, Activision and the likes aren't. This isn't about boycotts, this is about people getting burnt and not buying from a publisher again.
Personally I feel that this move toward DRM isn't to ensure people pay for product, it's to ensure people pay for the next version of the product. You can't play a game that requires an internet connection if the DRM servers no longer exist for that game.This has happened in the past (one game that comes to mind is the last FIFA World Cup game, no servers, no online play). It really disheartens me that there's such stupid comments flowing about such a serious issue.
Remember, executives rarely follow the same failure track of their companies...
I hate to admit it, but it's true. Rarely do you see an exec walk away from crap like this without his/her shirt on their back. Hell, most of them get rewarded with a new position in another company.
Look at what Sol Trujillo did here in Australia. Ran Telstra into the ground and walked away with a huge pay out. While all the mum & dad investors ended up losing their retirement nest egg, he sits there counting the millions he walked away with.
Don't get me started on that retarded shit. Huge families are NOT NEEDED ANYMORE. Too many of you survive through science (medicine).
Either drop the science and go pure religion, or wake up, worship your god, and drop the huge families.
Population control is definitely something that the world needs to take seriously. Sure, lessening our eco footprint is a good thing (I don't agree with you on that one), however the main thing we should be doing is keeping the population under control. Once we hit critical mass there's no return from there.
Firstly, you have a say, ALWAYS. Governments aren't there to control the people (while you may let them, it's not the case), short of said governments tearing up constitutions and so forth you can always fight back.
Secondly, there are KNOWN side effects with this vaccine, they are clearly stated prior to vaccination (at least here in Australia) as required by law - just the same as all vaccines.
I really don't get where these paranoid delusions suggesting that the government is something to fear. Sure, they do some fucked up stuff, but you have to not let them get away with it. Hold them accountable, stand and fight. Sitting there and being scared of something that YOU control as a citizen is not really a smart way of doing things.
TFA also stated that no one really knows what it is or how it's formed, so you can't really infer that because it runs perpendicular to the galactic magnetic field that it's a side effect of the two interacting. There are a number of unanswered questions about this, and only time will tell what it is or how it formed. Very big watch this space (sorry, couldn't help myself).
News corp, and unfortunately a company I work for are getting it wrong time and time again with the whole digital age. They are expecting people to pay for a service that advertising has paid for since newspapers were invented. It's general knowledge in the industry that if there were no subscribers (ie, people paying), not much would change. As long as the paper is in people's hands and advertisers are willing to pay stupid amounts for space, everyone gets paid.
Even when they do, it's usually a sign the rest of the board is on it's way out too. A device on the board not functioning can mean a number of things (MB controllers acting up, visible/non-visible corrosion in the board, blown capacitors, etc), so you can be up for a lot of weird behaviour from the board that you can't pin down.
To be honest, relying purely on a test suite to tell you what's broken will lead to disaster. Only through experience do you get the pointers toward what is actually faulty. Add to this that true diagnosis only comes from swapping out parts, and, well, test suites don't look at all like a viable option.
When I am repairing hardware about the only suite I use is memtest86+ and a decent live linux distro. You can usually pick devices that have failed with lspci, however this is not always correct. It all goes back to having test hardware & the knowledge of what certain behaviours in systems are caused by certain faults. After 15 years of working in IT with both hardware & software faults, there's only so much you can do with limited or no test hardware. Most of the time when you're diagnosing hardware faults on the phone it's an educated guess at best, the only time you truly get a decent diagnosis is when you have the machine with you and can swap parts out. Hell, we don't even use the Dell diagnostics at work due to their inability to give decent results on anything other than RAM.
Bejeweled has also undergone heavy redevelopment, as do all popcap games. They are "demoed" on the web as flash games but what you buy on Win, Mac, iPhone, Palm, Xbox, etc, is developed for the platform.
Flash has it's uses, but as a cash purchase I don't think I'll hop on board.
Agreed, I think we sometimes get caught up on the semantics a bit too much and forget what the point of the whole Linux/GNU/FreeBSD thing is. Software freedom doesn't include restrictions on naming, otherwise it's not truly software freedom is it now?
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Yeh, because there's never been a rebellion in the US...
No, your government just bombs the fuck out of countries that disagree with them...
Tell that to anyone using a transmission electron microscope. I have friends who dislike the digital microscopy due to the detail being much lower than film. While it is quicker and less susceptible to movement problems, you lose most of the detail due to the electrons being far smaller than the CMOS sensor's pixels.
I really think this jaded "we don't need any more technology" bullshit is just a modern day luddite attitude. It seems to be a fear of being superseded with the technology you currently use. Maybe it's that or the fear that the camera(s) you spent thousands of dollars on are made redundant by this tech. Heaven forbid that an amateur can start taking photos better than pros.
I remember people said similar stuff when digital photography came in, now it's the standard.
No, you are a true idiot.
Your incoherent ramblings are a blight on slashdot and have been for some time. You make no sense at all. All you come across as is someone who has no idea what they are talking about with a grudge against geeks/nerds (amusing for someone posting on slashdot).
GPL most certainly does not restrict USE at all. It is restricting whether you can close source it without contributing back. You are free to use the code as you want, the restriction doesn't actually stop you from using the code, just stops you from distributing it.
How this is a parallel to DRM I have no idea. Maybe you can enlighten us with your all encompassing knowledge.
I really think you've started with a flawed premise.
I've actually found that users LOVE web apps if they do what they're intended to do AND the company is willing to move beyond the IE6 sphere of stupidity.
I was working for a media company and they deployed a web app that made it easier for journos to submit stories, the only desktop app required was used by the editors. No longer did they have to log in to a VPN and run a very network intensive publishing app via satellite from remote places just to submit the story. They could submit stories written in say notepad and copied & pasted into this app. The same company uses many other web apps that users like. The only time there's a complaint is when the developers screw up and break the app. This happens with ALL apps (same publishing app mentioned before broke almost weekly and it is not a web app).
There's many other web apps (including Google Documents) that are giving users a fresh look on web apps. While I can understand people's hesitations, I remember the good old days of crummy web apps crashing your computer and chewing processor time like there's no tomorrow, I do feel that we'll see a fundamental shift from local to cloud apps in the near future by choice. My father at 67 has moved entirely to OpenOffice with Google Docs sync as he writes a lot on the road. For me, this is a sign of just how little hold Microsoft really has on the end user market.
It seems the ONLY people I see complaining these days are people who work in IT. I'm not sure if these people have just not spoken to their users in 10 years, the web apps they deploy are crap, or that they fear their own expendability in the coming years.
It's just amusing that it's so close to the release that we've seen it happen. If people don't wake up and smell the coffee on this one we'll all be bent over a barrel with every new game release from now on.
There's no way that an home user can afford five nines internet access, so even if it isn't the authentication server end that's a problem, well, you're screwed anyway. Hell, if there's problems at higher tier routing you're probably going to be screwed anyway. I've seen this happen before with MMOs. If the servers were hosted locally (ie, in Australia, where I am from) we'd still be able to connect, but due to international routing problems no one in Australia was able to play. I know that's a bit off topic, but it seems to me that warning signs like that dictate that moving down a server authentication method for a single player game is fucking stupid.
Unfortunately the people who make decisions about protecting profits aren't exactly technologically proficient, let alone able to understand the intricacies in a global network like the internet. I doubt the team that programs the game even has anything to do the team programming the DRM other than having to somehow work it into their product.
In essence, what Ubisoft here has done is given people a real reason to boycott their products in a major way. I can't say I've seen a grass roots boycott take off, but when you shit on your customers you essentially force the boycott through ineptitude.
True, time will tell on this one, but I doubt it will be long before Ubisoft make the decision to take the same route as EA by rolling back DRM - well, that or their stock will tank and the company will go under.
So what you're saying is that it's ok for companies to dick 99.7% of their customer base, who would never pirate the game in the first place, just to delay downloaders from getting it by a day?
I love that kind of rationale.
See, it's not about the 99.7% of people. They buy the game, whether it's easy to crack or not. To me, fucking them over isn't a good thing at all, you lose 99.7% of your revenue. Look at what happened with EA. They screwed consumers with Spore, they saw the outrage from the people who don't download, and changed tactics. I even recall an article a little while ago where EA were contemplating not locking pirates out of buying DLC.
Unfortunately it seems that the company gamers love to hate, EA, is learning from their mistakes. Unfortunately companies like Ubisoft, Activision and the likes aren't. This isn't about boycotts, this is about people getting burnt and not buying from a publisher again.
Personally I feel that this move toward DRM isn't to ensure people pay for product, it's to ensure people pay for the next version of the product. You can't play a game that requires an internet connection if the DRM servers no longer exist for that game.This has happened in the past (one game that comes to mind is the last FIFA World Cup game, no servers, no online play). It really disheartens me that there's such stupid comments flowing about such a serious issue.
Remember, executives rarely follow the same failure track of their companies...
I hate to admit it, but it's true. Rarely do you see an exec walk away from crap like this without his/her shirt on their back. Hell, most of them get rewarded with a new position in another company.
Look at what Sol Trujillo did here in Australia. Ran Telstra into the ground and walked away with a huge pay out. While all the mum & dad investors ended up losing their retirement nest egg, he sits there counting the millions he walked away with.
That's why people are employed in that industry. Neural programming is a funny art, the best at it usually work in advertising.
The key is to catch yourself feeling a "foreign" emotion.
uhhh....
You can get electrocuted by peeing on an electrified fence: confirmed
CAPSING random WORDS doesn't make your ARGUMENT stronger.
Use your current job to go and get a job at rackspace or the like, you'll be fine.
His computer room then, do I win?
If you're behind a corporate firewall this won't work unless your firewall allows Skype. Most do not.
nope, just an evangelical.
Uhh, wrong way around mate.
Nvidia were the ones who ditched OpenGL support in Vista and refused to update their drivers.
no, that'd be SOHOMO
Don't get me started on that retarded shit. Huge families are NOT NEEDED ANYMORE. Too many of you survive through science (medicine).
Either drop the science and go pure religion, or wake up, worship your god, and drop the huge families.
Population control is definitely something that the world needs to take seriously. Sure, lessening our eco footprint is a good thing (I don't agree with you on that one), however the main thing we should be doing is keeping the population under control. Once we hit critical mass there's no return from there.
Firstly, you have a say, ALWAYS. Governments aren't there to control the people (while you may let them, it's not the case), short of said governments tearing up constitutions and so forth you can always fight back.
Secondly, there are KNOWN side effects with this vaccine, they are clearly stated prior to vaccination (at least here in Australia) as required by law - just the same as all vaccines.
I really don't get where these paranoid delusions suggesting that the government is something to fear. Sure, they do some fucked up stuff, but you have to not let them get away with it. Hold them accountable, stand and fight. Sitting there and being scared of something that YOU control as a citizen is not really a smart way of doing things.
TFA also stated that no one really knows what it is or how it's formed, so you can't really infer that because it runs perpendicular to the galactic magnetic field that it's a side effect of the two interacting. There are a number of unanswered questions about this, and only time will tell what it is or how it formed. Very big watch this space (sorry, couldn't help myself).
Wow, nice sarcasm, and well pointed, because Australians have invented nothing at all...
News corp, and unfortunately a company I work for are getting it wrong time and time again with the whole digital age. They are expecting people to pay for a service that advertising has paid for since newspapers were invented. It's general knowledge in the industry that if there were no subscribers (ie, people paying), not much would change. As long as the paper is in people's hands and advertisers are willing to pay stupid amounts for space, everyone gets paid.
Even when they do, it's usually a sign the rest of the board is on it's way out too. A device on the board not functioning can mean a number of things (MB controllers acting up, visible/non-visible corrosion in the board, blown capacitors, etc), so you can be up for a lot of weird behaviour from the board that you can't pin down.
To be honest, relying purely on a test suite to tell you what's broken will lead to disaster. Only through experience do you get the pointers toward what is actually faulty. Add to this that true diagnosis only comes from swapping out parts, and, well, test suites don't look at all like a viable option.
When I am repairing hardware about the only suite I use is memtest86+ and a decent live linux distro. You can usually pick devices that have failed with lspci, however this is not always correct. It all goes back to having test hardware & the knowledge of what certain behaviours in systems are caused by certain faults. After 15 years of working in IT with both hardware & software faults, there's only so much you can do with limited or no test hardware. Most of the time when you're diagnosing hardware faults on the phone it's an educated guess at best, the only time you truly get a decent diagnosis is when you have the machine with you and can swap parts out. Hell, we don't even use the Dell diagnostics at work due to their inability to give decent results on anything other than RAM.
Bejeweled has also undergone heavy redevelopment, as do all popcap games. They are "demoed" on the web as flash games but what you buy on Win, Mac, iPhone, Palm, Xbox, etc, is developed for the platform.
Flash has it's uses, but as a cash purchase I don't think I'll hop on board.
Agreed, I think we sometimes get caught up on the semantics a bit too much and forget what the point of the whole Linux/GNU/FreeBSD thing is. Software freedom doesn't include restrictions on naming, otherwise it's not truly software freedom is it now?