That seems to be happening more commonly these days, especially in the mobile world.
Company announces they will end a product line, and everyone looks around asking "Did you even know that existed?", of course I guess that explains why it's being ended.
SSDs have their place, but you're not going to use them in a storage server, or NAS.
Even as a home user I would not dump my media library on it, or use it to store my backups. I might go months without accessing a backup image, why store it on an SSD?
Everyone is pushing for them, but it'd kill services like OnLive, DropBox, iCloud.
If anything it would spur more piracy. Even if Netflix is still around, why should I use my BW to stream a movie every time I want to watch it, when I otherwise could pirate it one time and rewatch it from my local storage.
I got a feeling, stuff like AdBlock will be much more popular then, who wants a video ad eating up their BW on a site, especially since the ad is larger then the entire site itself.
OEMs are the ones making deals with other crapware supplies to put their SW on the computers for money.
Dell or whoever buys the bulk license from MS, Dell then goes and gets paid to put the crapware on their computers when they are sold. I fail to see how you can fault MS for any of that.
Don't want crapware, well MS sells a clean version of their OS, and now they are also offering a removal service.
These indie games are not like Steam, most would be good with a cloud server, maybe setup a couple for the initial launch and peak demand, then scale down after a couple weeks.
Isn't that why many companies are based in Delaware, but actually use that court district in East Texas to file IP suits?
I think I read once how there is some office building in DE that on paper houses like 200 different companies. Each suite is only like 100 sq ft so it can support a ton of companies to each have their own address, even though they are never used.
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Wait, randomly having the world reset is NOT a feature?
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But there is no guarantee of that. 15 years down the road, if they take the servers down will anyone care? Will anyone even remember this post?
But then we'll have a ton of games that are on a planned obsolescence scale.
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Except under the DMCA cracking the game would still be illegal.
At this time we have no legal recourse to play a game if the DRM servers are taken down. Even in 15 years, they can still come after you for pirating the game if they wanted to.
Then OP is an idiot for bitching about something that not even slated to be available on Linux.
And when that grandmother wants into Best Buy to buy a new computer, whats the sales person going to sell her on? Sure as hell wont be a Linux computer.
Your point being? OP makes no referance for it being on Linux, just that it's "useless".
This is being rolled out on Macs and Windows.
An 87 year old grandmother is not going to know what all these new-fangled "repositories" are. Nor will she Google around and search a dozen sites for a plugin she is wanting. She does know that her phone has an App store where she can get games and apps, and now here on her computer's browser is something also named App Marketplace, so that must be where she is supposed to go to get Apps here.
What Apple, Microsoft, Google, and now Mozilla are doing is called Marketing.
Oh I agree, but then again look who we're talking about in this case? They don't even follow their policy when it's explicitly written down in their handbook.
That's the ting, since they are not common and no one really has a scanner like the ones they use to test with, no one could adequately say how the pump would have been affected.
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Many of these types of EULA's note that legal matters will be handled via Arbiter not Court.
I think CA has overturned them, but IDK the exact details.
Isn't it popular in India for BBM as well?
Seems as a status symbol, like the iPhone in the states; everyone whose anyone will have one.
That seems to be happening more commonly these days, especially in the mobile world.
Company announces they will end a product line, and everyone looks around asking "Did you even know that existed?", of course I guess that explains why it's being ended.
SSDs have their place, but you're not going to use them in a storage server, or NAS.
Even as a home user I would not dump my media library on it, or use it to store my backups. I might go months without accessing a backup image, why store it on an SSD?
And... ARIN or whoever can also revoke/reclaim them if they are not being used appropriately.
Working for a hosting provider we have to make sure and catch spammers and abusers or we might not get another allocation when we need them.
Yea, and don't forget about cloud services.
Everyone is pushing for them, but it'd kill services like OnLive, DropBox, iCloud.
If anything it would spur more piracy. Even if Netflix is still around, why should I use my BW to stream a movie every time I want to watch it, when I otherwise could pirate it one time and rewatch it from my local storage.
Don't forget even Ben Franklin wrote under pseudonym, one of the people who signed the document where that quote came from.
I got a feeling, stuff like AdBlock will be much more popular then, who wants a video ad eating up their BW on a site, especially since the ad is larger then the entire site itself.
Yea, I make a few movies and I'll have to record like 40 min for about 5-10 min of final footage.
Doesn't count because:
A) Done by rich people
B) Done by a company
We should start holding the heads of companies liable for their crimes when they use the company as an instrument.
MS does not force anything on OEMs.
OEMs are the ones making deals with other crapware supplies to put their SW on the computers for money.
Dell or whoever buys the bulk license from MS, Dell then goes and gets paid to put the crapware on their computers when they are sold. I fail to see how you can fault MS for any of that.
Don't want crapware, well MS sells a clean version of their OS, and now they are also offering a removal service.
These indie games are not like Steam, most would be good with a cloud server, maybe setup a couple for the initial launch and peak demand, then scale down after a couple weeks.
it is if they have sizable fortunes.
People who renounce their citizenships are not the kind of people who you will see standing in line at Walmart.
Isn't that why many companies are based in Delaware, but actually use that court district in East Texas to file IP suits?
I think I read once how there is some office building in DE that on paper houses like 200 different companies. Each suite is only like 100 sq ft so it can support a ton of companies to each have their own address, even though they are never used.
Same here, I'm boycotting it along side ME3.
Indie games are in no short supply right now.
Wait, randomly having the world reset is NOT a feature?
But there is no guarantee of that.
15 years down the road, if they take the servers down will anyone care? Will anyone even remember this post?
But then we'll have a ton of games that are on a planned obsolescence scale.
Except under the DMCA cracking the game would still be illegal.
At this time we have no legal recourse to play a game if the DRM servers are taken down. Even in 15 years, they can still come after you for pirating the game if they wanted to.
Then OP is an idiot for bitching about something that not even slated to be available on Linux.
And when that grandmother wants into Best Buy to buy a new computer, whats the sales person going to sell her on? Sure as hell wont be a Linux computer.
Your point being? OP makes no referance for it being on Linux, just that it's "useless".
This is being rolled out on Macs and Windows.
An 87 year old grandmother is not going to know what all these new-fangled "repositories" are. Nor will she Google around and search a dozen sites for a plugin she is wanting.
She does know that her phone has an App store where she can get games and apps, and now here on her computer's browser is something also named App Marketplace, so that must be where she is supposed to go to get Apps here.
What Apple, Microsoft, Google, and now Mozilla are doing is called Marketing.
Ease of use for the lay-users.
People have gotten used to using "Apps" all over the place, and expect them to be all neatly collected in one area for them to browse.
Oh I agree, but then again look who we're talking about in this case?
They don't even follow their policy when it's explicitly written down in their handbook.
Well yea, that is in a nutshell what it is, only government sanctioned and in a more systematic way.
OK fine; you're not under arrest, you're just being held against your will till they are satisfied.
That's the ting, since they are not common and no one really has a scanner like the ones they use to test with, no one could adequately say how the pump would have been affected.