My understanding of the situation is that he was trying to restore the ability to boot to linux on the PS3, a feature that was included on the device when he purchased it.
No. That was failOverflow that did the work to get Linux running on the PS3 but they did not go on and do the additional work required to run pirated games on it. Geohot did that additional work.
You have that backwards, Geohot did not enable piracy and even went so far as to publicly discourage people from doing so.
Remember that Sony removed the other OS option in response to Geohot's success in de-cripling Other OS's capibilites.
I support the immediate recall of all games containing biblical samplings and verse references. It is well known that religious references are debase and cause conflict, therefore have no place in today's games/satire
Impulse is required to update and validate your games yes. However it is non-essential. You can run your games with out launching it, or even uninstall it. Its not really a background service either, IFAIR it doesn't launch at start up by default and can be turned off with out losing any functionality besides updating(until you launch it again)
Infact you can download impulse on 5 computers, uninstall it and still play the game on each one with out issue. You'll only be restricted to one "online"(online multiplayer session) per key.
How is this worse? its less intrusive than steam is.
It seems that you fail to realize the distinction between the rights of sale and the rights of use. It is perfectly fine for me to sell you an used OEM copy of windows with no hardware - that is right of sale.
However even though you now own the software, you have no right of use. That software is licensed for use on one computer and one computer only. If I do not sell it to you as well then you have absolutely no way to use that software within its license - therefore anything you do with it is going to be considered piracy. It makes me the asshole and you the pirate; thats why Microsoft discourages it.
Again I can sell you OEM copies but you can not use them without the hardware their license is tied to.
I honestly have to say too damn bad. If you want to use it on another computer you should buy the full version.
I love the OEM license. It lets my buy an OS I need to run for a reduced cost. Restricted use software has been around as long as there has been code. The OEM version of windows is essentially "Windows light" except its is fully functional and the only restriction is where you can use it.
The alternatives are either that MS will start selling all their software at a lower cost without limitations (which will never happen) or they get rid of the OEM license and only sell the Retail - and you pay full price for everything.
Microsoft's definition of pirated software is the same as Everyone else's. Illegally copied or counterfeited software and and software used outside of its license.
You have right of first sale for a Retail copy of windows. It can be installed an uninstalled from any number of machines as long as its only on one machine at a time. You also have right of first sale for an OEM copy of windows. However it has to be used with the same system(usually defined as motherboard) as it was sold with/originally installed on. Yes it is a restriction but that is why it is sold at a discounted price.
Someone with a Technet subscription can get any operating system and a legal key for that operating system for a yearly licensing fee. The usage license for the software restricts it to use in a test environment only but that allows you access to thousands of dollars of software for a fraction of the cost. If they start building and selling systems using those keys then thats piracy. If they use those keys in a production environment then thats piracy.
Remember that you can get a refund for the OEM copy of XP when you buy a computer prepackaged with it.
"There should be a good market for used copies of XP. Unfortunately, MS calls these genuine copies of the real thing "Pirated" and prohibits their sale." To reiterate - you can resale a retail copy of XP by itself. You can sell a OEM copy as well but it is piracy to use it on any computer but the one it was originally installed on.
"For the last 10 years Microsoft has also made available freeware viewer programs, but only for Windows, that can read Word documents without a full version of the MS Word software.[8] Microsoft has also provided converters that enable different versions of Word to import and export to older Word versions and other formats and converters for older Word versions to read documents created in newer Word formats.[9] The whole Office product range is covered by the Office Converter Pack for Office 97-2003 and Office Compatibility Pack for Office 2000-2007 since the release of Office 2007.[10]"
My statement was to begin with that you can easily get a freely access able reader for that type of document. The purpose of my initial link was to highlight that fact that Microsoft provides a free reader for the file. now if you are running a non-Microsoft OS then you can use freely available software like Open Office that even comes standard in several distros.
Then use Open Office, it also supports the.doc filetype.
Look, the point is that while you protest about the unfairness off it all there are easily accessed free alternatives. Microsoft themselves provide one just as the Open Source community does.
IIRC, the rail guns are to be used as a ballistic shell. Shooting a rod in a high trajectory with the impact being kinetically derived from its descent.
Being hit by what is essentially a aerodynamic crowbar travelling several time the speed of sound can not feel good.
Anyways the point being is you have a projectile that does large pin-point damage, is difficult if not impossible to detect/counter and most importantly is extremely cheap to fire. It would be well used for bunker busting and first strike/stealth attacks.
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No. That was failOverflow that did the work to get Linux running on the PS3 but they did not go on and do the additional work required to run pirated games on it. Geohot did that additional work.
You have that backwards, Geohot did not enable piracy and even went so far as to publicly discourage people from doing so.
Remember that Sony removed the other OS option in response to Geohot's success in de-cripling Other OS's capibilites.
I support the immediate recall of all games containing biblical samplings and verse references. /satire
It is well known that religious references are debase and cause conflict, therefore have no place in today's games
Impulse is required to update and validate your games yes. However it is non-essential. You can run your games with out launching it, or even uninstall it.
Its not really a background service either, IFAIR it doesn't launch at start up by default and can be turned off with out losing any functionality besides updating(until you launch it again)
Infact you can download impulse on 5 computers, uninstall it and still play the game on each one with out issue. You'll only be restricted to one "online"(online multiplayer session) per key.
How is this worse? its less intrusive than steam is.
It seems that you fail to realize the distinction between the rights of sale and the rights of use.
It is perfectly fine for me to sell you an used OEM copy of windows with no hardware - that is right of sale.
However even though you now own the software, you have no right of use. That software is licensed for use on one computer and one computer only. If I do not sell it to you as well then you have absolutely no way to use that software within its license - therefore anything you do with it is going to be considered piracy.
It makes me the asshole and you the pirate; thats why Microsoft discourages it.
Again I can sell you OEM copies but you can not use them without the hardware their license is tied to.
I honestly have to say too damn bad. If you want to use it on another computer you should buy the full version.
I love the OEM license. It lets my buy an OS I need to run for a reduced cost.
Restricted use software has been around as long as there has been code. The OEM version of windows is essentially "Windows light" except its is fully functional and the only restriction is where you can use it.
The alternatives are either that MS will start selling all their software at a lower cost without limitations (which will never happen) or they get rid of the OEM license and only sell the Retail - and you pay full price for everything.
Its legal for Retail copies. However you can not use OEM copies on any other computer than the one it was originally installed on.
Microsoft's definition of pirated software is the same as Everyone else's. Illegally copied or counterfeited software and and software used outside of its license.
You have right of first sale for a Retail copy of windows. It can be installed an uninstalled from any number of machines as long as its only on one machine at a time.
You also have right of first sale for an OEM copy of windows. However it has to be used with the same system(usually defined as motherboard) as it was sold with/originally installed on. Yes it is a restriction but that is why it is sold at a discounted price.
Someone with a Technet subscription can get any operating system and a legal key for that operating system for a yearly licensing fee. The usage license for the software restricts it to use in a test environment only but that allows you access to thousands of dollars of software for a fraction of the cost.
If they start building and selling systems using those keys then thats piracy. If they use those keys in a production environment then thats piracy.
Remember that you can get a refund for the OEM copy of XP when you buy a computer prepackaged with it.
"There should be a good market for used copies of XP. Unfortunately, MS calls these genuine copies of the real thing "Pirated" and prohibits their sale."
To reiterate - you can resale a retail copy of XP by itself. You can sell a OEM copy as well but it is piracy to use it on any computer but the one it was originally installed on.
It would be too obvious if they were reading the ToS.
Have you ever used a boomerang before?
Someone usually ends up catching it with the back of their head.
I think trust IS a boomerang.
This will probably not be read but:
"For the last 10 years Microsoft has also made available freeware viewer programs, but only for Windows, that can read Word documents without a full version of the MS Word software.[8] Microsoft has also provided converters that enable different versions of Word to import and export to older Word versions and other formats and converters for older Word versions to read documents created in newer Word formats.[9] The whole Office product range is covered by the Office Converter Pack for Office 97-2003 and Office Compatibility Pack for Office 2000-2007 since the release of Office 2007.[10]"
An excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word
Which is what my original link points to. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en
A free viewer provided by microsoft
My statement was to begin with that you can easily get a freely access able reader for that type of document. The purpose of my initial link was to highlight that fact that Microsoft provides a free reader for the file. now if you are running a non-Microsoft OS then you can use freely available software like Open Office that even comes standard in several distros.
Then use Open Office, it also supports the .doc filetype.
Look, the point is that while you protest about the unfairness off it all there are easily accessed free alternatives. Microsoft themselves provide one just as the Open Source community does.
Of course There is no possible way that you may be able download a free document viewer that lets you read these types of files is there?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en
That would be unheard of.
IIRC, the rail guns are to be used as a ballistic shell. Shooting a rod in a high trajectory with the impact being kinetically derived from its descent. Being hit by what is essentially a aerodynamic crowbar travelling several time the speed of sound can not feel good. Anyways the point being is you have a projectile that does large pin-point damage, is difficult if not impossible to detect/counter and most importantly is extremely cheap to fire. It would be well used for bunker busting and first strike/stealth attacks.