Trying to pretend piracy isn't still rampant on the PC is laughable. Yeah someone got the DRM version first and made their pirated copy out of that. Removing the DRM just means he needs less effort to share it. DRM probably doesn't do a whole deal to protect companies but if everyone went with the GOG model, there'd be no improvement. The problem is there are too many self-entitled little kids who think paying for their ISP is payment enough for content. We should remove DRM and any other restrictions from media but the freetards still need to be punished.
I'm sure they knew support wasn't free but they thought they would try the upset customer routine and blame it on you. Tell them to go pound sand and hang up.
The register's journalistic integrity is quite low. That said, some of his complaints against freetards are valid. People who think they deserve everything for the price of their broadband connection aren't people anyone should pay attention to.
That's not a bad idea but if does put developers in an awkward position of deciding whether they can take advantage of that extra power whch may not do too much and makes their pool of potential customers smaller. I think it's doable. It's basically what Nitnendo has been doing with the gameboy and DS but they'll stil have to be careful how they handle it.
I agree Sony has taken risks but with their new junk status, it's going to be very hard for them to get money from anyone. I suspect they'll be taking fewer risks. Which is unfortuante but if it does mean they'll support the PS3 longer I can't say I'm too upset. I really like my PS3 and see no huge reason to replace it.
It's not that unbelievable that someone would hack in to take it out against US companies given there probably are a lot of people there that aren't happy with the US. Since they may view their government as being too friendly with the US and giving up their people to a country that doesn't have the greatest record of treating its prisoners well.
I really get the impression that the thing now is to to rely heavily on someone else to do the work for you via a framework, engine or whatever, don't really care about optimisation and just get the thing out the door as quickly and cheaply as possible.
If, for example, a developer relies on Unreal engine then I'm not surprised if that wouldn't run well on the Wii U and probably the reason Epic will avoid it but I've never seen anything that says Epic can write great highly optimised code. Their games always seem to run like shit on PCs unless you spent a fortune on hardware. The specs on the box were just there for a laugh, I think. Too many companies rely on this kind of work to make their games.
I'm not surprised that as the US becomes a major player in consoles again they're ruining it. I'd even bet on us seeing a repeat of the crash in the 80's thanks to Microsoft and the sort of developers they have attracted to console gaming. They can go back to the PC and stay there, imo.
Not when your company isn't rolling in money and can't afford any real risks (Sony) or your company risks the next version of its big money maker tanking and therefore can't upset shareholders even more by repeating the same mistakes (Microsoft).
A lot of publishers and developers have struggled to get by due to costs too. I'm not entirely sure they're looking forward to starting the whole process over again with higher costs. I'm not sure consumers are that into buying up DLC either to cover costs.
If I were Sony or Microsoft I would relieved Nintendo didn't put something out there that's super advanced and just ride things out for at least another two years. The jump in graphics will probably be smaller than at any other time anyway so why risk it when the economy is still shit and people maybe aren't that keen on spending loads on a new console?
Yeah because Google is much better. I take it the google fanboys are taking a break from ruining open street map data to attack someone else that dare compete with the almighty google.
If duck.com points to their search engine he does still have a point that it causes brand confusion. If DDG is trademarked (I suspect it is), he can probably fight that. The question is, can he afford to fight it.
DDG does indeed use Bing as well as a ton of other sources including their own crawler and he is righ about choice. Keeping in mind at first you couldn't even change your search engine at all in Android's browser. I would not be surprised if it were added because they were starting to be looked at.
For a website you're claiming is pro Microsoft is seems odd that Google is their first alternative search choice when they don't find what you want.
So it Google losing it for not having a Windows 64-bit browser? You're right MS has a 64-bit browser but offers the 32-bit one along side and it's possibly the default one as well. IE is the one that looks like a mess by offering two products that do the same identical thing and only serve to confuse people that don't know why they have two internet explorers and what the 64-bit version means to them.
Does anyone other than Microsoft offer a 64-bit browser? Even then, MS provides both and the 32-bit one probably looks safer to most people since it's just called "Internet Explorer". The other has 64-bit appended to it which means it probably looks just different enough to scare off the clueless.
Open Office and Linux isn't *that* different for what the average person does with a computer. Most people can't remember where things are in Office and have to search or ask. So it doesn't matter if they're asking for Office or open office.
If they're true Microsoft will whatever it takes to either silence them or make theirs cheaper. Personally I think their lower pricing for Windows 8 should be considered along the lines of dumping already.
Slashdot Mirror
Trying to pretend piracy isn't still rampant on the PC is laughable. Yeah someone got the DRM version first and made their pirated copy out of that. Removing the DRM just means he needs less effort to share it. DRM probably doesn't do a whole deal to protect companies but if everyone went with the GOG model, there'd be no improvement. The problem is there are too many self-entitled little kids who think paying for their ISP is payment enough for content. We should remove DRM and any other restrictions from media but the freetards still need to be punished.
I'm sure they knew support wasn't free but they thought they would try the upset customer routine and blame it on you. Tell them to go pound sand and hang up.
The register's journalistic integrity is quite low. That said, some of his complaints against freetards are valid. People who think they deserve everything for the price of their broadband connection aren't people anyone should pay attention to.
That's not a bad idea but if does put developers in an awkward position of deciding whether they can take advantage of that extra power whch may not do too much and makes their pool of potential customers smaller. I think it's doable. It's basically what Nitnendo has been doing with the gameboy and DS but they'll stil have to be careful how they handle it.
I agree Sony has taken risks but with their new junk status, it's going to be very hard for them to get money from anyone. I suspect they'll be taking fewer risks. Which is unfortuante but if it does mean they'll support the PS3 longer I can't say I'm too upset. I really like my PS3 and see no huge reason to replace it.
It's not that unbelievable that someone would hack in to take it out against US companies given there probably are a lot of people there that aren't happy with the US. Since they may view their government as being too friendly with the US and giving up their people to a country that doesn't have the greatest record of treating its prisoners well.
I really get the impression that the thing now is to to rely heavily on someone else to do the work for you via a framework, engine or whatever, don't really care about optimisation and just get the thing out the door as quickly and cheaply as possible.
If, for example, a developer relies on Unreal engine then I'm not surprised if that wouldn't run well on the Wii U and probably the reason Epic will avoid it but I've never seen anything that says Epic can write great highly optimised code. Their games always seem to run like shit on PCs unless you spent a fortune on hardware. The specs on the box were just there for a laugh, I think. Too many companies rely on this kind of work to make their games.
I'm not surprised that as the US becomes a major player in consoles again they're ruining it. I'd even bet on us seeing a repeat of the crash in the 80's thanks to Microsoft and the sort of developers they have attracted to console gaming. They can go back to the PC and stay there, imo.
Not when your company isn't rolling in money and can't afford any real risks (Sony) or your company risks the next version of its big money maker tanking and therefore can't upset shareholders even more by repeating the same mistakes (Microsoft).
A lot of publishers and developers have struggled to get by due to costs too. I'm not entirely sure they're looking forward to starting the whole process over again with higher costs. I'm not sure consumers are that into buying up DLC either to cover costs.
If I were Sony or Microsoft I would relieved Nintendo didn't put something out there that's super advanced and just ride things out for at least another two years. The jump in graphics will probably be smaller than at any other time anyway so why risk it when the economy is still shit and people maybe aren't that keen on spending loads on a new console?
Aren't you happy someone targeted your people instead?
But if DuckDuckGo is trademarked then he has a valid point that duck.com now points to a competitor and it's very similar to his trademark.
Yeah because Google is much better. I take it the google fanboys are taking a break from ruining open street map data to attack someone else that dare compete with the almighty google.
If duck.com points to their search engine he does still have a point that it causes brand confusion. If DDG is trademarked (I suspect it is), he can probably fight that. The question is, can he afford to fight it.
Sounds like a Google fanboy is spreading FUD again.
DDG does indeed use Bing as well as a ton of other sources including their own crawler and he is righ about choice. Keeping in mind at first you couldn't even change your search engine at all in Android's browser. I would not be surprised if it were added because they were starting to be looked at.
For a website you're claiming is pro Microsoft is seems odd that Google is their first alternative search choice when they don't find what you want.
So it Google losing it for not having a Windows 64-bit browser? You're right MS has a 64-bit browser but offers the 32-bit one along side and it's possibly the default one as well. IE is the one that looks like a mess by offering two products that do the same identical thing and only serve to confuse people that don't know why they have two internet explorers and what the 64-bit version means to them.
Does anyone other than Microsoft offer a 64-bit browser? Even then, MS provides both and the 32-bit one probably looks safer to most people since it's just called "Internet Explorer". The other has 64-bit appended to it which means it probably looks just different enough to scare off the clueless.
Open Office and Linux isn't *that* different for what the average person does with a computer. Most people can't remember where things are in Office and have to search or ask. So it doesn't matter if they're asking for Office or open office.
If they're true Microsoft will whatever it takes to either silence them or make theirs cheaper. Personally I think their lower pricing for Windows 8 should be considered along the lines of dumping already.
I'm aware it's most if not all corporations but there is only one with a motto that strongly implies they should take the moral high road.
Good luck to France and Australia. I hope the gets tough and does something similar rather than just waste our money talking about their taxes.
My Thinkpad, running Linux (which I'm on today), runs firefox too. I just mentioned my OSX performance since that was relevant to his comment.
Get a wii if money is tight or get the Wii U so you get access to the new games and the ability to play Wii games.
Yeah because kids like sitting arond a desk waiting for updates to be applied.
She could always tell people to temporary unfriend her.
So does searching your home.