And using something like No Script for Firefox will disable your script and the ability to prevent the "right click copy". That doesn't change the fact that the web site owner tried to prevent you from right clicking.
That said, I've always disliked that script as I use right clicking to go back to the previous page. I could go to the back button, but I find right clicking more convenient. YMMV
I recently took a Physics course where the Professor prohibited anything but a standard (simple) calculator, no graphing calculators, no cell phones, and no laptops. Yes, it was difficult to change back to a "regular" calculator after having used a graphing calculator for three years. In the end, we all managed.
Prohibit whatever you don't want them using, if they're too upset by it they'll drop the course. This is life and they need to start learning those lessons now (if they hadn't already).
I will be interested to see how this turns out. SaaS sounds like a great idea, but it seems that the big game companies would have done that already if it was. Part of this is the nature of the game you will create. An MMO style game should see success, however I can envision others not so successful.
Also curious to see if gamers would support this model, I for one would be concerned about the playability of a game should your company go out of business.
What are ads? Since I started using Adblock Plus and No-Script, I can't recall seeing any. And a Big Thank You to No-Script for the ability to unilaterally distrust google-analyitics.
Which is the reason DRM and the like is hurting these companies - you paid for the movie or tv show and you can't watch it at home on your media center computer. The box doesn't say "stand alone DVD player required" or "These disks will not play on a Media Center computer DVD drive" does it? I didn't think so (example is the recently released "Daria The Complete TV Show". My media center won't play it from the dvd drive because of copy protection. I don't own a stand alone DVD player, so without ripping it or backing it up my wife cannot watch her new disks. One I get some free time, the media center will be replaced with MythTV.
So, act responsibly, buy the movie, tv show, or game and you can't watch or play without circumventing the DRM. Great business model - you got my money and I got something I can't view. Too bad the U.S. doesn't have the product law Britain does, I might have some recourse.
For me it's an easy decision - no demo, no purchase. Since the game reviewers are all in the pocket of the game companies (personal opinion - but I've yet to see someone give a game I thought had serious flaws a bad review) a demo is the next reasonable method of determining if I like a game enough to purchase.
A great example was R.U.S.E. - interesting game concept, decent single player AI, and ok multiplayer. But overall, it wasn't worth the money for me. Did the developer loose a sale because they released a demo - No, because I don't buy a game just on reviews or even word of mouth.
Hmmm, might want to get your sarcasm detector fixed (can I get a smiley on this - refers to the beta test feedback system). Guess you're unfamiliar with it.
Well color me red, here I thought this kind of testing should have been done prior to release. Guess the new model of software development is to have the users discover the bugs (can I get a smiley on this) instead of paying a QA team to test.
People always say this is unlikely or unrealistic until it happens. As one posted already, we had an Austrian Corporal use Germany's census data to round up the Jews and the United States government did the same to the Japanese Americans during World War 2 - using census data.
If you're OK with providing all the information government asks for during the census, fine. I am not, not because of some tin foil hat conspiracy theory - just from a sense of history. It will probably amount to nothing, but I don't buy the explanations of why they need that info.
Fortunately, in the United States, we are not (yet) at the point of the government collecting photos and fingerprints. I don't expect that will last too much longer - probably be required as part of health care.
If you are refering to the individuals who leaked those documents, then I agree. To me, this is nothing different than someone leaking to the newspapers or the television stations. Once its out, its out.
If you are refering to the people who host the web sites, then we have a different story. While a web site does not have the protections that journalists do - I believe that in this case they are providing the public the same type of information, and should be protected.
YMMV
I don't need my browser taking up valuable screen space to display a @#$%^&* stupid ribbon.
Anyone have a suggestion for a browser that is more interested in displaying web pages properly without add #$%^& eye-candy?
This, and while were at it, start embracing the community that successful games have built. For example, Company of Heroes - the original game didn't have DRM, had a unique twist to the typical RTS format, supported LAN and TCP/IP play, and quickly developed a mod community. Relic/THQ promised additional mod tools which didn't come out until just before the THIRD expansion, they changed to a peer-to-peer patch system which sucked, and they pretty well ignored the mod community while releasing patches which constantly broke the mods.
All in all, great game, but poor decisions on the part of the company turned a great game into something not worth playing any more.
It's just a fact of defending the Constitution, you are bound by the regulations of the service you joined; very few service people realize that your rights are suspended when they join up. Given they are citing security concerns, I don't see the problem. If they were trying to ban total access to social networking sites on and off-duty, they can do it.
Just how in the hell is a syllabus a contract between teacher and student? At best, it is the standard by which the teacher announces the intended requirements and flow for the course - at worst, it's nothing more than a homework and study guide.
Thank god your wife doesn't teach where I go to school, most of us don't put up with that kind of crap and will drop the class before the first period is over.
What a crock! And if her class is a requirement for graduation and happens to be the only session being taught in a given semester, I'd be willing to wager you would get a lot of complaints. B.T.W. does she states this in her syllabus clearly, or do you wait until someone complains and then bring in the lawyers?
Personally, I haven't bought a new album in over three years. And no, I'm not using p2p or any other source to get them illegally. I haven't heard of anything worth listening (much less buying) in some time. If my daughter hadn't given me the last Rush album, I would have bought that, but there just isn't anything worth listening to anymore.
I don't even listen to the radio in the car, just play a CD. Sorry record execs, but your demise cannot come soon enough for me. The RIAA and the MPAA need to go the way of the dinosaurs. JFDA
You left out the option of being a student at a technical college which offers server 2008 through the MSDNA. I also use server 2008 as my desktop and prefer it over Vista for most of the same reasons. Most importantly, the file transfer rates over the network are great!
Unfortunately, the design of XP/2000 required admin privileges to install most programs - then, because of the coding decisions made by Microsoft, many of these same programs required admin privileges to run. Add in Windows popularity and the sheer number of programs that run this way and you have created the wonderful target of hackers, etc.
I kind of miss the old dos days of popping in a floppy with the OS and program I wanted to run and rebooting the computer. Totally unfeasible now for most users, but I liked being able to customize the OS for that application.
Imagine having to reboot today when changing programs, it would be a nightmare!
Well, seems it's not just the big ISP - my DSL provider (Cincinnati Bell) does the same. I tried the webmale.google.com FTA which sent me to the CB search page. Any suggestions on what tact to take in filing a complaint?
It's too bad you didn't include the members of congress who voted in favor of sending the troops into Afghanistan, Iraq, and the other places they have been sent in the past 10, 20, 30 - oh hell, you pick the number of years.
Instead of familiarizing yourself with the history concerning Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and every other dictator throughout human history; let me suggest instead you go visit Iraq or Afghanistan and talk to the people there today.
Supporter of bring back the death penalty for TREASON.
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And using something like No Script for Firefox will disable your script and the ability to prevent the "right click copy". That doesn't change the fact that the web site owner tried to prevent you from right clicking.
That said, I've always disliked that script as I use right clicking to go back to the previous page. I could go to the back button, but I find right clicking more convenient. YMMV
I recently took a Physics course where the Professor prohibited anything but a standard (simple) calculator, no graphing calculators, no cell phones, and no laptops. Yes, it was difficult to change back to a "regular" calculator after having used a graphing calculator for three years. In the end, we all managed. Prohibit whatever you don't want them using, if they're too upset by it they'll drop the course. This is life and they need to start learning those lessons now (if they hadn't already).
I will be interested to see how this turns out. SaaS sounds like a great idea, but it seems that the big game companies would have done that already if it was. Part of this is the nature of the game you will create. An MMO style game should see success, however I can envision others not so successful.
Also curious to see if gamers would support this model, I for one would be concerned about the playability of a game should your company go out of business.
Good Luck!
What are ads? Since I started using Adblock Plus and No-Script, I can't recall seeing any. And a Big Thank You to No-Script for the ability to unilaterally distrust google-analyitics.
OK, I'll play - ummm, Dell?
And that filibuster was so successful at stopping the health care bill. Next example please.
Flash sucks. Period. No need to limit that to anything non-Windows.
Can't wait to see some use smarts to spam the crap out of this printer. I will laugh heartily!
Which is the reason DRM and the like is hurting these companies - you paid for the movie or tv show and you can't watch it at home on your media center computer. The box doesn't say "stand alone DVD player required" or "These disks will not play on a Media Center computer DVD drive" does it? I didn't think so (example is the recently released "Daria The Complete TV Show". My media center won't play it from the dvd drive because of copy protection. I don't own a stand alone DVD player, so without ripping it or backing it up my wife cannot watch her new disks. One I get some free time, the media center will be replaced with MythTV.
So, act responsibly, buy the movie, tv show, or game and you can't watch or play without circumventing the DRM. Great business model - you got my money and I got something I can't view. Too bad the U.S. doesn't have the product law Britain does, I might have some recourse.
For me it's an easy decision - no demo, no purchase. Since the game reviewers are all in the pocket of the game companies (personal opinion - but I've yet to see someone give a game I thought had serious flaws a bad review) a demo is the next reasonable method of determining if I like a game enough to purchase.
A great example was R.U.S.E. - interesting game concept, decent single player AI, and ok multiplayer. But overall, it wasn't worth the money for me. Did the developer loose a sale because they released a demo - No, because I don't buy a game just on reviews or even word of mouth.
Just my $0.02, YMMV
Hmmm, might want to get your sarcasm detector fixed (can I get a smiley on this - refers to the beta test feedback system). Guess you're unfamiliar with it.
Well color me red, here I thought this kind of testing should have been done prior to release. Guess the new model of software development is to have the users discover the bugs (can I get a smiley on this) instead of paying a QA team to test.
People always say this is unlikely or unrealistic until it happens. As one posted already, we had an Austrian Corporal use Germany's census data to round up the Jews and the United States government did the same to the Japanese Americans during World War 2 - using census data.
If you're OK with providing all the information government asks for during the census, fine. I am not, not because of some tin foil hat conspiracy theory - just from a sense of history. It will probably amount to nothing, but I don't buy the explanations of why they need that info.
Fortunately, in the United States, we are not (yet) at the point of the government collecting photos and fingerprints. I don't expect that will last too much longer - probably be required as part of health care.
Democrat is to Republican as:
C) Pot is to Kettle
A clearly inaccurate analogy. Everyone knows there are no black Republicans.
Clearly Forest, you have lived up to one of your favorite sayings!
I can't remember the last time I saw an online ad from my computer at home. Now if work would let me install Firefox I'd be able to say Ads? What ads?
If you are refering to the individuals who leaked those documents, then I agree. To me, this is nothing different than someone leaking to the newspapers or the television stations. Once its out, its out. If you are refering to the people who host the web sites, then we have a different story. While a web site does not have the protections that journalists do - I believe that in this case they are providing the public the same type of information, and should be protected. YMMV
I don't need my browser taking up valuable screen space to display a @#$%^&* stupid ribbon. Anyone have a suggestion for a browser that is more interested in displaying web pages properly without add #$%^& eye-candy?
This, and while were at it, start embracing the community that successful games have built. For example, Company of Heroes - the original game didn't have DRM, had a unique twist to the typical RTS format, supported LAN and TCP/IP play, and quickly developed a mod community. Relic/THQ promised additional mod tools which didn't come out until just before the THIRD expansion, they changed to a peer-to-peer patch system which sucked, and they pretty well ignored the mod community while releasing patches which constantly broke the mods.
All in all, great game, but poor decisions on the part of the company turned a great game into something not worth playing any more.
It's just a fact of defending the Constitution, you are bound by the regulations of the service you joined; very few service people realize that your rights are suspended when they join up. Given they are citing security concerns, I don't see the problem. If they were trying to ban total access to social networking sites on and off-duty, they can do it.
Just how in the hell is a syllabus a contract between teacher and student? At best, it is the standard by which the teacher announces the intended requirements and flow for the course - at worst, it's nothing more than a homework and study guide.
Thank god your wife doesn't teach where I go to school, most of us don't put up with that kind of crap and will drop the class before the first period is over.
What a crock! And if her class is a requirement for graduation and happens to be the only session being taught in a given semester, I'd be willing to wager you would get a lot of complaints. B.T.W. does she states this in her syllabus clearly, or do you wait until someone complains and then bring in the lawyers?
Personally, I haven't bought a new album in over three years. And no, I'm not using p2p or any other source to get them illegally. I haven't heard of anything worth listening (much less buying) in some time. If my daughter hadn't given me the last Rush album, I would have bought that, but there just isn't anything worth listening to anymore.
I don't even listen to the radio in the car, just play a CD. Sorry record execs, but your demise cannot come soon enough for me. The RIAA and the MPAA need to go the way of the dinosaurs. JFDA
You left out the option of being a student at a technical college which offers server 2008 through the MSDNA. I also use server 2008 as my desktop and prefer it over Vista for most of the same reasons. Most importantly, the file transfer rates over the network are great!
Unfortunately, the design of XP/2000 required admin privileges to install most programs - then, because of the coding decisions made by Microsoft, many of these same programs required admin privileges to run. Add in Windows popularity and the sheer number of programs that run this way and you have created the wonderful target of hackers, etc. I kind of miss the old dos days of popping in a floppy with the OS and program I wanted to run and rebooting the computer. Totally unfeasible now for most users, but I liked being able to customize the OS for that application. Imagine having to reboot today when changing programs, it would be a nightmare!
Well, seems it's not just the big ISP - my DSL provider (Cincinnati Bell) does the same. I tried the webmale.google.com FTA which sent me to the CB search page. Any suggestions on what tact to take in filing a complaint?
It's too bad you didn't include the members of congress who voted in favor of sending the troops into Afghanistan, Iraq, and the other places they have been sent in the past 10, 20, 30 - oh hell, you pick the number of years. Instead of familiarizing yourself with the history concerning Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and every other dictator throughout human history; let me suggest instead you go visit Iraq or Afghanistan and talk to the people there today.
Supporter of bring back the death penalty for TREASON.