"This is a method of copy protection that is less annoying to 99% of legitimate users than the current system of making sure you have the disc in the drive."
I completely disagree. I shouldn't need to wait for a server hundreds or thousands of miles away to remember I am allowed to use software I purchased. It is very easy for me to have a disc, put it into the machine, and play a game. However, what are you going to do when EA's servers are slowed due to ISP/Overload/Bugs? I bought their Battlefield game a couple years back (the one before 2142)and I couldn't play it for 3 months due to their master server having issues. Valve I might trust on this but certainly not EA. Putting a Disc in has worked for every console, and the majority of PC games in the last 10 years. If you really think this is a step forward in convenience, I just don't see where your point of view is coming from at all. Yes, Discs get damaged (not sure how though I mean I have hundreds of games and the only one I remember losing to damage is Serious Sam 2, but it was gloriously shattered while moving I must admit!)
If they *really* wanna have Spore phone home, then they need to have it do that when I have it call home to *GET* something of value to me, and it is optional. A patch, bonus content, high score list or whatever. I don't really want it ever telling them I am still using their game, thats a whole separate issue however.
All in all if I was given the option: Disc in Drive or Phone home I choose Disc in drive every time. Seriously, 100%. I have accounts on MMOs the whole point of playing a single player game is to not need the internet, at all, unless I choose to use it for whatever reason.
If it was such a big deal that your RAM be secure why dont RAM makers make special "Secure RAM" kits with a small (I am not an engineer, please forgive my ignorance)battery and have it detect power down, and then expend the battery to alter the RAM contents, write all 1's or something? An OS solution wouldn't work if the power was pulled, I expect nearly all legitimate uses of RAM dont need the contents after power down so chances are anyone trying to get at em has nefarious plans.
Plans to invade Canada have been scrapped by three separate administrations. Your bilingual signs confuse us, and its cold. Please send us more "bacon" as we would like to have another Egg McMuffin, and we will conveniently forget about the everything else, eh?
I think the people not paying their taxes are bad people. Unless of course they don't pay their taxes AND manage to not use anything that subsidized via taxes. Then they are A-OK!
Except I can borrow and drive my neighbors car on that road, assuming he lets me, and the cops wont pull me over and arrest me or fine me $50,000 per car I have borrow. They also don't repave that road every few years and then tell me I have to pay again because now I am driving on a new version of that road. (ok admittedly sometimes that last one happnes, damn you toll roads!)
We are in luck as there are two facts of life that will likely protect us:
1: If men cant behave that way as it is, then lets face it we aren't capable of creating robots who can.
2: The women who are capable of programming the robots who can, are also nerds and are unlikely to understand a non nerd womans needs, once the robot starts making physics jokes it'll be returned.
3: Luckily enough women out there still like men who are bad for them and the legal liability of those robots would be too high to make them worth producing.
I work for a 3rd party field rep company who handles many electronics manufacturers (Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Samsung, and a host of GPS companies as well). I have been a rep for quite some time and in Feb took a District management position overseeing half of California. The company got everyone a phone in April, I was issued a Treo which auto syncs to work mail every 30 minutes. This is my first management job, so I had a lot to learn, I was expected to work from 9AM-6PM Monday-Friday with a few calls to be made on the weekend for people who were late with work. At first I was getting calls as early as 7AM and as late as 9PM. I would check my mail all night, stop what I was doing and work on things whenever I was at my computer and I always spent a good hour right before bed on work. It really began to annoy my wife, alot. We talked about it, as she had worked in the computer industry and was used to this style of work and kept telling me to push back. It took me a while, like 6 months, but now I don't answer the phone after 7. I only check my email once before bed after work hours and not even every night, and despite not taking calls over the weekend unless its a repeat caller signaling emergency, my district numbers are on their way up and I have never been called to task for taking my own time as *my own time*. So all in all I agree the Employee has the power to set the tone and should do so. Obviously, you need to go about it correctly, but the fact is I got lucky as my boss the regional manager "broke" before I did as she was called all weekend any hour of the day so when she signaled to me that she was tired of it, it was easy for me to agree and push back to the office that I needed to be off at some point in the day.
It was a new thing for our company, so I imagine it happened alot, I just dint hear of it given our lack of a central office for the field people.
I worked in a Comic and Card shop at the time 3rd Ed came out and there isn't a sinister reason behind the recall. The fact is, the recall was done to make sure that stores didn't refuse to carry 3.0 books due to having 2nd Ed books still. Our store was small and if the owner couldn't have ripped those covers and sent them in for credit, he wouldn't have ordered 3rd Ed until he was out of 2nd for certain.
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"This is a method of copy protection that is less annoying to 99% of legitimate users than the current system of making sure you have the disc in the drive." I completely disagree. I shouldn't need to wait for a server hundreds or thousands of miles away to remember I am allowed to use software I purchased. It is very easy for me to have a disc, put it into the machine, and play a game. However, what are you going to do when EA's servers are slowed due to ISP/Overload/Bugs? I bought their Battlefield game a couple years back (the one before 2142)and I couldn't play it for 3 months due to their master server having issues. Valve I might trust on this but certainly not EA. Putting a Disc in has worked for every console, and the majority of PC games in the last 10 years. If you really think this is a step forward in convenience, I just don't see where your point of view is coming from at all. Yes, Discs get damaged (not sure how though I mean I have hundreds of games and the only one I remember losing to damage is Serious Sam 2, but it was gloriously shattered while moving I must admit!) If they *really* wanna have Spore phone home, then they need to have it do that when I have it call home to *GET* something of value to me, and it is optional. A patch, bonus content, high score list or whatever. I don't really want it ever telling them I am still using their game, thats a whole separate issue however. All in all if I was given the option: Disc in Drive or Phone home I choose Disc in drive every time. Seriously, 100%. I have accounts on MMOs the whole point of playing a single player game is to not need the internet, at all, unless I choose to use it for whatever reason.
While we can all agree the Japanese do enjoy fish, I think you may have their monthly lunch budget a little high.
If it was such a big deal that your RAM be secure why dont RAM makers make special "Secure RAM" kits with a small (I am not an engineer, please forgive my ignorance)battery and have it detect power down, and then expend the battery to alter the RAM contents, write all 1's or something? An OS solution wouldn't work if the power was pulled, I expect nearly all legitimate uses of RAM dont need the contents after power down so chances are anyone trying to get at em has nefarious plans.
Plans to invade Canada have been scrapped by three separate administrations. Your bilingual signs confuse us, and its cold. Please send us more "bacon" as we would like to have another Egg McMuffin, and we will conveniently forget about the everything else, eh?
Only if its Chocolate Rain.
I think the people not paying their taxes are bad people. Unless of course they don't pay their taxes AND manage to not use anything that subsidized via taxes. Then they are A-OK!
Except I can borrow and drive my neighbors car on that road, assuming he lets me, and the cops wont pull me over and arrest me or fine me $50,000 per car I have borrow. They also don't repave that road every few years and then tell me I have to pay again because now I am driving on a new version of that road. (ok admittedly sometimes that last one happnes, damn you toll roads!)
We are in luck as there are two facts of life that will likely protect us: 1: If men cant behave that way as it is, then lets face it we aren't capable of creating robots who can. 2: The women who are capable of programming the robots who can, are also nerds and are unlikely to understand a non nerd womans needs, once the robot starts making physics jokes it'll be returned. 3: Luckily enough women out there still like men who are bad for them and the legal liability of those robots would be too high to make them worth producing.
I work for a 3rd party field rep company who handles many electronics manufacturers (Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Samsung, and a host of GPS companies as well). I have been a rep for quite some time and in Feb took a District management position overseeing half of California. The company got everyone a phone in April, I was issued a Treo which auto syncs to work mail every 30 minutes. This is my first management job, so I had a lot to learn, I was expected to work from 9AM-6PM Monday-Friday with a few calls to be made on the weekend for people who were late with work. At first I was getting calls as early as 7AM and as late as 9PM. I would check my mail all night, stop what I was doing and work on things whenever I was at my computer and I always spent a good hour right before bed on work. It really began to annoy my wife, alot. We talked about it, as she had worked in the computer industry and was used to this style of work and kept telling me to push back. It took me a while, like 6 months, but now I don't answer the phone after 7. I only check my email once before bed after work hours and not even every night, and despite not taking calls over the weekend unless its a repeat caller signaling emergency, my district numbers are on their way up and I have never been called to task for taking my own time as *my own time*. So all in all I agree the Employee has the power to set the tone and should do so. Obviously, you need to go about it correctly, but the fact is I got lucky as my boss the regional manager "broke" before I did as she was called all weekend any hour of the day so when she signaled to me that she was tired of it, it was easy for me to agree and push back to the office that I needed to be off at some point in the day. It was a new thing for our company, so I imagine it happened alot, I just dint hear of it given our lack of a central office for the field people.
Well, obviously in the AC's opinion, learning to spell "comparison" is a waste of time rivaled only by reading.
Your proposed complaint ratio only works if you assume half of the posters on /. actually attempt to RTFA.
I worked in a Comic and Card shop at the time 3rd Ed came out and there isn't a sinister reason behind the recall. The fact is, the recall was done to make sure that stores didn't refuse to carry 3.0 books due to having 2nd Ed books still. Our store was small and if the owner couldn't have ripped those covers and sent them in for credit, he wouldn't have ordered 3rd Ed until he was out of 2nd for certain.