You'd have had no different an experience if the game you tried to install required a downloaded patch to run because of compatibility issues.
I agree that the current state of DRM is horrible, way far from perfect, but I can still see why something needs to be done to stem piracy. I don't buy into the figures, or mentality, of these big companies regarding "lost sales" or massive profit losses (whatever a profit loss is... If you've not sold the unit, you've not made the profit to lose) but they do have as much right to limit your use of a product as you have to tell them to shove their product where the sun doesn't shine. I'd much prefer it if the terms weren't hidden in 800 lines of lawyer-speak, but that's not what this is about.
Steam is "Validate your account once, get access to all of the games you have purchased with that account, stay offline for the rest of your life if you want." type of DRM. Nobody is stopping you from using what you've paid for. They're making sure nobody else is using it too.
Booo hisss DRM is bad, but this is probably the best of a bad lot.
Just how many of those examples of professional video creation and editing equipment are in any way comparable to the consumer PlayStation 3 game console?
This isn't apples and oranges, this is 12w food blender electric motor and Ferarri Type 056 2.4L V8 petrol engine.
If I want to be tracked permanently by a website, I'll create an account and log in. They can trace me by logging my actions while logged in. Any site which tracks me without me logging in to an account had better let me delete their tracking cookie, or they'll very quickly lose my business.
I do mean business, too. They're in the business of serving me advertisements. I'll not be looking at them if I stop visiting the site.
If it's an HTC Android phone, it has 2.2 in at least an unofficial capacity at XDA Developers. Hell, some Windows Mobile phones have it too (I run 2.1 on my Touch Diamond 2 / Fuze / Topaz ).
After sales support from Samsung's mobile division has a reputation for being lackluster. Once you've bought it, it's yours and they don't give half a monkey's, let alone a full one.
With Samsung mobile phones, it's very much Caveat Emptor. I'm waiting for the release of the Desire HD before I upgrade. At least then I know there's a huge crowd at xda-developers who can assist with any issues I have, if HTC decide to turn Samsung on me.
Neither Ozzy as a solo artist, nor Black Sabbath, were death metal.
Akercocke, Morbid Angel, Terrorizer, Meshuggah, some old Sepultura maybe. If you want a sample that's easy to access, try this Dethklok - "Go Into The Water" Video contains excessive cartoon gore, but no NSFW lyrics. Fairly melodic, but still much heavier than heavy metal.
If you believe what the multi-billion dollar worth guy who owns the company which is making cash hand-over-fist while violating your privacy says about the roots of the website.
More's the point, why the hell isn't their a manual pump? You don't need sunlight to hand-crank a piston. Some form of centrifugal brake* will prevent exceeding the maximum pressure of the filter, and it can run indoors with a hose out to the salt water.
* - I don't know if this is the correct term. The faster you turn the crank, a set of weighted brake shoes (or similar) move out towards a high friction surface. The faster you spin, the harder it becomes to continue. Or some such.
If I steal an apple from your fruit bowl, I can feed myself for a couple of hours.
If I steal your 52" plasma screen TV and fence it, I can feed myself for a month at least.
What I steal isn't the issue. Why I steal it isn't either. A homeless person stealing your TV is no less serious than a couple of chavs out with his mates doing the same thing. Theft is theft. If we looked after the homeless and less well off, we wouldn't have them stealing our stuff. At that point, we'd only have the opportunist and the greedy, which could well be dealt with by the methods you outlined. However, we need to care for the needy first.
I get the impression that they would apply a specific "identity creation" process to the NAND chip, and that would bring out the inherit flaws in the chip fab process. You can apply the same process to other silicon, but you won't get the same result.
You may well be able to emulate it using some awesome hardware, but how is that going to help if this is using your mobile phone internal memory for purchase authentication? You going to carry around your FPGA emulation rig to spoof payment authorisation?
And the world lost interest, and turned over to the X Factor.
Face it; We're pretty comfortable here. Nobody wants to ask questions, nobody wants culpability. Everybody wants an SUV, a 3 bed semi, and holidays to Disney World every year.
What really happened is a guy, who should have known better, installed an unfamiliar application onto someone elses computer, offered no training or guidance during the transition, and then proceeded to tell the decision maker of the institution why he should be grateful.
If my boss says to me "We want Office 2010" I will obviously mention LibreOffice, maybe even offer to install it side by side with a trial of Office 2010 so they can be better informed of the options and make better decisions.
What I won't do is install LibreOffice, tell them they're wrong for wanting the product they wish for, then post about it on a forum to earn some nerd-cred. After all, they're paying me. I offer my advice and expertise for that, but I don't go against their wishes when a decision is made.
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You forget that "... to stop terrorism" is the equivalent of "sudo".
You also forget that before the election, every party lies through their teeth to get into power. It's expected.
You'd have had no different an experience if the game you tried to install required a downloaded patch to run because of compatibility issues.
I agree that the current state of DRM is horrible, way far from perfect, but I can still see why something needs to be done to stem piracy. I don't buy into the figures, or mentality, of these big companies regarding "lost sales" or massive profit losses (whatever a profit loss is... If you've not sold the unit, you've not made the profit to lose) but they do have as much right to limit your use of a product as you have to tell them to shove their product where the sun doesn't shine. I'd much prefer it if the terms weren't hidden in 800 lines of lawyer-speak, but that's not what this is about.
Caveat Emptor, and all that.
Steam is "Validate your account once, get access to all of the games you have purchased with that account, stay offline for the rest of your life if you want." type of DRM. Nobody is stopping you from using what you've paid for. They're making sure nobody else is using it too.
Booo hisss DRM is bad, but this is probably the best of a bad lot.
Just how many of those examples of professional video creation and editing equipment are in any way comparable to the consumer PlayStation 3 game console?
This isn't apples and oranges, this is 12w food blender electric motor and Ferarri Type 056 2.4L V8 petrol engine.
Just wait for a datacenter refit. You'll get at least one per HDD, and you're being WEEE directive compliant in the process!
This.
If I want to be tracked permanently by a website, I'll create an account and log in. They can trace me by logging my actions while logged in. Any site which tracks me without me logging in to an account had better let me delete their tracking cookie, or they'll very quickly lose my business.
I do mean business, too. They're in the business of serving me advertisements. I'll not be looking at them if I stop visiting the site.
If it's an HTC Android phone, it has 2.2 in at least an unofficial capacity at XDA Developers. Hell, some Windows Mobile phones have it too (I run 2.1 on my Touch Diamond 2 / Fuze / Topaz ).
After sales support from Samsung's mobile division has a reputation for being lackluster. Once you've bought it, it's yours and they don't give half a monkey's, let alone a full one.
With Samsung mobile phones, it's very much Caveat Emptor. I'm waiting for the release of the Desire HD before I upgrade. At least then I know there's a huge crowd at xda-developers who can assist with any issues I have, if HTC decide to turn Samsung on me.
Sure helps my karma, though.
Thanks, folks!
Neither Ozzy as a solo artist, nor Black Sabbath, were death metal.
Akercocke, Morbid Angel, Terrorizer, Meshuggah, some old Sepultura maybe. If you want a sample that's easy to access, try this Dethklok - "Go Into The Water" Video contains excessive cartoon gore, but no NSFW lyrics. Fairly melodic, but still much heavier than heavy metal.
If you believe what the multi-billion dollar worth guy who owns the company which is making cash hand-over-fist while violating your privacy says about the roots of the website.
You couldn't get a more biased source.
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
It's 13.00 here. We were clicking too.
Sorry, not going to happen. Unfortunately, Linux on the desktop is dead.
:(
A Windows editorial writer said so yesterday
A pulsed laser rifle, on the other hand, would be used to write morse code on your corpse!
More's the point, why the hell isn't their a manual pump? You don't need sunlight to hand-crank a piston. Some form of centrifugal brake* will prevent exceeding the maximum pressure of the filter, and it can run indoors with a hose out to the salt water.
* - I don't know if this is the correct term. The faster you turn the crank, a set of weighted brake shoes (or similar) move out towards a high friction surface. The faster you spin, the harder it becomes to continue. Or some such.
They're related, but not the same. Maverick Meerkat starred in an adaptation of a feature film about homosexual fighter pilots.
If I steal an apple from your fruit bowl, I can feed myself for a couple of hours.
If I steal your 52" plasma screen TV and fence it, I can feed myself for a month at least.
What I steal isn't the issue. Why I steal it isn't either. A homeless person stealing your TV is no less serious than a couple of chavs out with his mates doing the same thing. Theft is theft. If we looked after the homeless and less well off, we wouldn't have them stealing our stuff. At that point, we'd only have the opportunist and the greedy, which could well be dealt with by the methods you outlined. However, we need to care for the needy first.
Doubtful. Dreamy Driving Death Doesn't Dissuade Defiant Dickheads.
Damn.
s/drone/HK ?
I get the impression that they would apply a specific "identity creation" process to the NAND chip, and that would bring out the inherit flaws in the chip fab process. You can apply the same process to other silicon, but you won't get the same result.
You may well be able to emulate it using some awesome hardware, but how is that going to help if this is using your mobile phone internal memory for purchase authentication? You going to carry around your FPGA emulation rig to spoof payment authorisation?
And the world lost interest, and turned over to the X Factor.
Face it; We're pretty comfortable here. Nobody wants to ask questions, nobody wants culpability. Everybody wants an SUV, a 3 bed semi, and holidays to Disney World every year.
It's your dream, after all.
That's Trademarks, if I recall correctly. Again, IANAL.
Successful troll is successful.
What really happened is a guy, who should have known better, installed an unfamiliar application onto someone elses computer, offered no training or guidance during the transition, and then proceeded to tell the decision maker of the institution why he should be grateful.
If my boss says to me "We want Office 2010" I will obviously mention LibreOffice, maybe even offer to install it side by side with a trial of Office 2010 so they can be better informed of the options and make better decisions.
What I won't do is install LibreOffice, tell them they're wrong for wanting the product they wish for, then post about it on a forum to earn some nerd-cred. After all, they're paying me. I offer my advice and expertise for that, but I don't go against their wishes when a decision is made.
65k should be enough for anyone.
I understand that attaching a note with the words "With compliments, Plone Dev Team" onto the top of a case of fine single malt works equally well.