I'm sure this won't make a noticeable dent in the games purchased by minors, unless you believe that underage drinking doesn't happen. Reality aside, this is a stupid law. The first time someone discovers a great game, they play it night and day, non-stop. If they are in school (or even better, on summer vacation) this doesn't really matter a whole lot, but if they're 21 and out in the work force, they could be fired for coming in late and being a total zombie.
It doesn't really matter what individual users want. The home computer is irrelevant, or if you prefer, gravy. The meat and potatos is and always has been the large institutions where the users work, who buy licenses by the thousands and dictate what the users will have access to. Software companies understand that, and they also know that if Joe User has MS Office at work, he'll probably buy it for home too because it's familiar.
Well yeah, you can easily find 3.4 million sites with Google, but I'd be very surprised if any of them contain actual pirated software.
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EB has a 14 day return policy, no questions asked. I was in line behind a middle-aged guy and the clerk was explaining that if his son didn't like the game he could bring it back.
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I don't know about the States, but when I took a writing course (in Canada) we were told that saying "allegedly" is no protection, and if the person wanted to sue the paper they would probably win. What we were taught was that you describe the crime, with the police description of the suspect (if they have one) and then say John Doe has been arrested or charged, as the case may be. You can only say "John Doe broke into Radio Shack" after he's been convicted.
The only issue I have with this is that the vast majority of us have grown up buying books and CDs, so even when there are free digital versions available we still like the old physical copy. I'm not sure whether this will be true of future generations who will have grown up with digital versions and may not like the physical copy better. If that's the case, ten or twenty years from now all the arguments about file-trading being good for sales may no longer be true.
Is Iceland still a country, or just a corporation specializing in outsourcing large research projects? And how many of these studies can they do simultaneously without worrying about cross-contamination of the data?
The end of the world may not have come, but do we know when the end of their world came in relation to this tablet? Sure, the lump of rock called Earth keeps spinning just fine, but societies and empires rise and fall constantly. The fact that a civilization 5000 years ago was at the same stage as we are is not proof that everything is staying the same.
Since people who want to play the songs on their computer will not be able to with the legally purchased CD, where will they turn? Will they say "oh well, Sony knows best" and buy a CD which they can't listen to? Or will they download the MP3s of every song on the CD and not bother buying a copy?
I'm sure you meant to say "P2P enterprise grade Slashdot-like solution". I mean, if you're going to use meaningless buzz-words, you might as well use all of them.
Download.com has introduced a nice little disclaimer that they attach to programs which, while a lot more wordy and circumspect, basically says "this program contains spyware". It makes it way quicker to decide which program to try than scrolling through all the user feedback to see if anyone has posted a warning.
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Not Shrek and The Matrix, Camp Co-ed and Buttman 6.
"Our company has standardized on it for some reason..."
Our company standardized on Outlook/Exchange (and got taken down by Code Red because of it). The reason I heard that actually makes sense is that investors (who are completely clueless about technology but invest in tech companies) think Outlook is what "serious" companies use. So even though the people at our company making the decision know it's stupid, they did it anyway because otherwise people who know nothing won't give them money. It's sick, but it's better than having a CIO who actually thinks Outlook is a good product.
When I was in school we learned Pascal, and pointers was part of the intro course. My knowledge of pointers was fundamental to figuring out how objects are passed in Java.
I imagine they will have a well-marked Jar-Jar spawn site, with campers lined up for miles and GMs patrolling to make sure each player goes to the end of the line after taking their turn.
It won't eliminate all bugs in software, but what it does is enable programmers to fix the bugs that are the biggest impediment to their project. An example:
The company where I work has a number of projects. One of them is a front-end, windows GUI. Another is a backend Java servlet. On the front end, we had to get our Viewer to work with a screen-reader so blind people can use it. The screen-reader is proprietary, and has bugs. We informed the maker of the screen reader of the bugs, but in the mean time had to put in all sorts of hacks to make our software avoid the bugs in the screen-reader. Also note that we informed them of the bugs almost a month ago and have not received a fix.
The Java servlet runs on Tomcat, which is open source and has bugs. Our programmer was able to fix the bugs in Tomcat that prevented our program from working, submit them to the project and have a working copy within a week.
I was under the impression that people were pirating satellite signals meant for the local affiliates which don't contain commercials. And there was the added bonus that the affiliates get the show before it airs. One Day Crack, anyone?
Thank you, I was starting to think there was something wrong with the Slashdot crowd, describing it as "good". I can only remeber watching one episode where I didn't laugh so hard it hurt.
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I'm sure this won't make a noticeable dent in the games purchased by minors, unless you believe that underage drinking doesn't happen. Reality aside, this is a stupid law. The first time someone discovers a great game, they play it night and day, non-stop. If they are in school (or even better, on summer vacation) this doesn't really matter a whole lot, but if they're 21 and out in the work force, they could be fired for coming in late and being a total zombie.
It doesn't really matter what individual users want. The home computer is irrelevant, or if you prefer, gravy. The meat and potatos is and always has been the large institutions where the users work, who buy licenses by the thousands and dictate what the users will have access to. Software companies understand that, and they also know that if Joe User has MS Office at work, he'll probably buy it for home too because it's familiar.
Well yeah, you can easily find 3.4 million sites with Google, but I'd be very surprised if any of them contain actual pirated software.
EB has a 14 day return policy, no questions asked. I was in line behind a middle-aged guy and the clerk was explaining that if his son didn't like the game he could bring it back.
I don't know about the States, but when I took a writing course (in Canada) we were told that saying "allegedly" is no protection, and if the person wanted to sue the paper they would probably win. What we were taught was that you describe the crime, with the police description of the suspect (if they have one) and then say John Doe has been arrested or charged, as the case may be. You can only say "John Doe broke into Radio Shack" after he's been convicted.
My God, I have a beard and I don't speak Latin! Does that make me an ultra-barbarian?
The only issue I have with this is that the vast majority of us have grown up buying books and CDs, so even when there are free digital versions available we still like the old physical copy. I'm not sure whether this will be true of future generations who will have grown up with digital versions and may not like the physical copy better. If that's the case, ten or twenty years from now all the arguments about file-trading being good for sales may no longer be true.
Is Iceland still a country, or just a corporation specializing in outsourcing large research projects? And how many of these studies can they do simultaneously without worrying about cross-contamination of the data?
The end of the world may not have come, but do we know when the end of their world came in relation to this tablet? Sure, the lump of rock called Earth keeps spinning just fine, but societies and empires rise and fall constantly. The fact that a civilization 5000 years ago was at the same stage as we are is not proof that everything is staying the same.
Since people who want to play the songs on their computer will not be able to with the legally purchased CD, where will they turn? Will they say "oh well, Sony knows best" and buy a CD which they can't listen to? Or will they download the MP3s of every song on the CD and not bother buying a copy?
I think I know what Jesus would do.
I'm sure you meant to say "P2P enterprise grade Slashdot-like solution". I mean, if you're going to use meaningless buzz-words, you might as well use all of them.
They should hide behind legal precedent and rename their site the "Java Sucks Ranch".
Download.com has introduced a nice little disclaimer that they attach to programs which, while a lot more wordy and circumspect, basically says "this program contains spyware". It makes it way quicker to decide which program to try than scrolling through all the user feedback to see if anyone has posted a warning.
Not Shrek and The Matrix, Camp Co-ed and Buttman 6.
Our company standardized on Outlook/Exchange (and got taken down by Code Red because of it). The reason I heard that actually makes sense is that investors (who are completely clueless about technology but invest in tech companies) think Outlook is what "serious" companies use. So even though the people at our company making the decision know it's stupid, they did it anyway because otherwise people who know nothing won't give them money. It's sick, but it's better than having a CIO who actually thinks Outlook is a good product.
Keep in mind that the Chinese had smaller feet. Especially the women.
Fortunately, none of their shenanigans ever prevented me from getting to Yahoo.
When I was in school we learned Pascal, and pointers was part of the intro course. My knowledge of pointers was fundamental to figuring out how objects are passed in Java.
That's one opinion. Another would be "yes, they do".
A saucy bug-report... does that automatically append "Fix it now, bitch." to every bug filed.
I imagine they will have a well-marked Jar-Jar spawn site, with campers lined up for miles and GMs patrolling to make sure each player goes to the end of the line after taking their turn.
It won't eliminate all bugs in software, but what it does is enable programmers to fix the bugs that are the biggest impediment to their project. An example:
The company where I work has a number of projects. One of them is a front-end, windows GUI. Another is a backend Java servlet. On the front end, we had to get our Viewer to work with a screen-reader so blind people can use it. The screen-reader is proprietary, and has bugs. We informed the maker of the screen reader of the bugs, but in the mean time had to put in all sorts of hacks to make our software avoid the bugs in the screen-reader. Also note that we informed them of the bugs almost a month ago and have not received a fix.
The Java servlet runs on Tomcat, which is open source and has bugs. Our programmer was able to fix the bugs in Tomcat that prevented our program from working, submit them to the project and have a working copy within a week.
I was under the impression that people were pirating satellite signals meant for the local affiliates which don't contain commercials. And there was the added bonus that the affiliates get the show before it airs. One Day Crack, anyone?
Wow, you just made me realize that I haven't thought about Katz in months, maybe even a year. 'S a good idea though, I almost always read Cringley.
>THE BEST FUCKING SHOW EVER
Thank you, I was starting to think there was something wrong with the Slashdot crowd, describing it as "good". I can only remeber watching one episode where I didn't laugh so hard it hurt.