I understand your argument very well, but: 1. If I buy a pair of shoe in India, it won't stop working when I get home 2. Valve could have avoided all this and simply accepted the keys. If everyone was buying their games in India, they would not make money anyway - instead of only some people.
And finally - if I read "India only" on a game box, I will set my Steam settings to "India". Problem solved - heck, even US games can work now.
After 12 years, do the radio will play the same old tunes or play music completely unrelated to the settings of the game?
Anyway, J.T. or the RIAA will surely oppose to this.
Exactly like DRM, I am sure this restrictive method will work flawlessly! I think Intel is making the right choice by using something you can't update against an entire army of hackers!
This is what I think since the beginning. Seriously, if someone would write a ZFS module for the kernel, what's the problem? Linux developpers can call this illegal, everybody will use it anyway.
IBM could release the district from the debt at these conditions:
1. Use only IBM software/hardware
2. Pay cash only
3. Public detailed reports about IT investments
Does the little asterisk means the price is: Case A: 80MB HDrive for 12000$, for a minimum of 40 systems; 300MB HDrive for 20000$, for a minimum of 69 systems; Case B: 40x 80MB HD for a total of 12000$, totalling 300$ each; 69x 300MB HDrive for a total of 20000$, totalling ~290$ each.
If somebody transcribes a song to a tab and publish it, I certainly won't download the version John Smith played with this tab with his own guitar, since it is not the original and he certainly doesn't know to play it like the original artist.
It is like listening to a movie, writing all the script and the scenario, then asking a bunch of people to do the movie again. It will probably sucks for the general public, but the people who made it would simply be better at making movies, just like amateur guitarists.
In conclusion, ripoffs can't put an original piece in danger.
When I was younger, I thought multi-ghz systems would boot immediatly, programs would appear as soon as I click on them and Internet would be faster than my eyelid. Didn't happen.
The "usability speed" should have lowered by the time, not remained stable.
There are many levels of computer illiterates. I have to frequently explain to my parents how to attach a file to a e-mail and they don't get the computer concept at all.
These kind of people would not see the hell of a difference between IE, Mozilla, Safari, streamlined Firefox, standard Firefox, etc. as long as it works. They don't care about RSS, pop-ups, etc.
So the principal interested here is the maintainer of the house PC. And I think only a streamlined versions should be available.
My Firefox uses from 100-150mb of RAM and I am just doing browsing here, not playing a 3D game or doing video editing. When my computer is slow, I always suspect Firefox and it's frequently his fault.
It is still a good browser - but I would like a brand new fork, like a Firefox Lite or something.
When you look at Google from another POV, it is not becoming evil at all. Google is pushing new technologies where "old" companies just let it go - and some people are seeing this as evil. We still have liberty to choose. The companies fear Google because they used innovation before all, and it seems that it worked.
Only time will tell.
I think this will actually confuse people that are seeking the real key. Now everyone will see random 32 bits integer anywhere.
But it's funny as hell too - even if script seems down.
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I understand your argument very well, but:
1. If I buy a pair of shoe in India, it won't stop working when I get home
2. Valve could have avoided all this and simply accepted the keys. If everyone was buying their games in India, they would not make money anyway - instead of only some people.
And finally - if I read "India only" on a game box, I will set my Steam settings to "India". Problem solved - heck, even US games can work now.
ctrl-c + ctrl-v = Cyber RIAA ninjas
in other news, 300 Chinese people died from a coal mine explosion.
After 12 years, do the radio will play the same old tunes or play music completely unrelated to the settings of the game? Anyway, J.T. or the RIAA will surely oppose to this.
Exactly like DRM, I am sure this restrictive method will work flawlessly! I think Intel is making the right choice by using something you can't update against an entire army of hackers!
This is what I think since the beginning. Seriously, if someone would write a ZFS module for the kernel, what's the problem? Linux developpers can call this illegal, everybody will use it anyway.
IBM could release the district from the debt at these conditions: 1. Use only IBM software/hardware 2. Pay cash only 3. Public detailed reports about IT investments
Does it cleans virii?
In the ad: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9024559
Does the little asterisk means the price is:
Case A:
80MB HDrive for 12000$, for a minimum of 40 systems;
300MB HDrive for 20000$, for a minimum of 69 systems;
Case B:
40x 80MB HD for a total of 12000$, totalling 300$ each;
69x 300MB HDrive for a total of 20000$, totalling ~290$ each.
Any idea?
This is why teens are so attracted to sex and Internet porn. They love the forbidden fruit!
If somebody transcribes a song to a tab and publish it, I certainly won't download the version John Smith played with this tab with his own guitar, since it is not the original and he certainly doesn't know to play it like the original artist. It is like listening to a movie, writing all the script and the scenario, then asking a bunch of people to do the movie again. It will probably sucks for the general public, but the people who made it would simply be better at making movies, just like amateur guitarists. In conclusion, ripoffs can't put an original piece in danger.
When I was younger, I thought multi-ghz systems would boot immediatly, programs would appear as soon as I click on them and Internet would be faster than my eyelid. Didn't happen. The "usability speed" should have lowered by the time, not remained stable.
The Zunes! The Zunes! The Zunes!
There are many levels of computer illiterates. I have to frequently explain to my parents how to attach a file to a e-mail and they don't get the computer concept at all. These kind of people would not see the hell of a difference between IE, Mozilla, Safari, streamlined Firefox, standard Firefox, etc. as long as it works. They don't care about RSS, pop-ups, etc. So the principal interested here is the maintainer of the house PC. And I think only a streamlined versions should be available.
My Firefox uses from 100-150mb of RAM and I am just doing browsing here, not playing a 3D game or doing video editing. When my computer is slow, I always suspect Firefox and it's frequently his fault. It is still a good browser - but I would like a brand new fork, like a Firefox Lite or something.
Wish I could shut down parts of my brain to save energy and eat less!
When you look at Google from another POV, it is not becoming evil at all. Google is pushing new technologies where "old" companies just let it go - and some people are seeing this as evil. We still have liberty to choose. The companies fear Google because they used innovation before all, and it seems that it worked. Only time will tell.
So where can we see these documents? What, they are hiding them?
I think this will actually confuse people that are seeking the real key. Now everyone will see random 32 bits integer anywhere. But it's funny as hell too - even if script seems down.