They made a big fuss about it because those email addresses should not have been broadcast to anyone who asked for them. An unlocked door is not a valid analogy unless it also had a big sign that read "200 OK; Come on in!".
I would agree with you if they were selling something. But they've been very clear they're only "licensing" it to you. It's either a license or property and they should not be able to pick and choose properties from both for the clear purpose of reaming the customer the most.
Resistance is futile jokes happen far less than sharks with lasers. That joke is made several times a day on this site (probably because lasers are more common than cyborgs). The fact that I notice that really admits that I read far too many comments on this site but I do notice a downward trend of useful comments. When ~10 year old memes make up 10%-20% of commenting material then people who have been coming here for discussion will tend to get fed up. They will want to discourage it, or at least have a way to moderate it out of their view. The -1 with no karma effect actually isn't that bad of an idea. It doesn't punish people who are just, as you said, having light fun but also doesn't subject others who know they don't want to see it.
Of course this annoying slashcode is far more harmful to discussion than memes ever could be. Why the hell does my browser window have to jump around every time I click this textbox?
In that case we better get rid of the Troll mod. Some people seem to find trolling funny. I'm led to believe that's why they do it. There are some people here that do get sick of these old memes and feel that they harm the discussion. How many times, for instance, have sharks been mentioned in this thread? Perhaps that might have been a cute joke but not after already having to glaze over twelve other shark jokes. Although I think perhaps the "Overrated" mod option kind of covers this phenomenon.
The real problem is that you can't always go after hackers. To reuse the bank analogy if the vault had an open tunnel going all the way to North Korea then it would most definitely be the bank's job to seal it. If someone waltzes in from North Korea and steals everything there's no going after them. No one is saying don't go after hackers (well, mostly no one) but there is a higher burden of responsibility to the owners of the compromised networks. They must do what is in their power to ensure outside attackers cannot get in.
Experts in the field is who I would listen to advice from. In this case people who have been gaming for years and have seen and understand why this practice is bad for consumers. They also have a solution that was often practiced in days of yore. Release the software that is necessary to use the product that has been purchased.
Supposedly there is some kind of representational democracy in the united states. Perhaps that should be put to use? Do you not think most people will agree that once a product is purchased it should continue to function without the grace of the producer?
"We have to start a war! We built all these weapons and they're going to go bad!"
I think the GP's point was to put those resources into constructive things like infrastructure. Not waste them on things that go boom. Whether or not munitions have a shelf live does not negate the fact that they are money and resources spent and lost. Have too many bullets? Don't buy so many.
It is still a licensing issue and not patent as I see it. Does anything stop them from using the BluRay spec while not using the name and not reading BluRay movies/discs as long as they are paying the patent fees (which I'm fairly convinced they already are for the most part)? There may be an issue there that I don't see but doing this would allow them to use off the shelf parts and manufacturing ie. cheaper.
So being as they specifically quoted patent fees as the issue and not licensing (perhaps them just simplifying for the masses) and the fact that they are most certainly still paying patent fees leads me to conclude that this is mostly about piracy and not patent fees. Especially since patent fees just get passed on to the consumer anyway.
That's because mobile devices do not have R700 GPUs in them. They have some kind of low power graphics chip usually built into the CPU itself. Desktop GPUs such as this one usually won't work without at least a 500Watt power supply for a reason.
How many patent fees can this avoid? They're still going to be using patented optical media technologies. They might not have to license the DVD or BluRay names but the actual technologies will be the same. This is certainly about piracy (which is well within their right). The GDROM didn't help Sega because they allowed CDROMs also but the Gamecube proprietary format did a pretty good job of stopping piracy if I'm not mistaken.
As far as overheating with earlier models, the PS3 was in the same boat, just people like to attack Microsoft because they are Microsoft.
Woa, just woa. That is absolutely not true. The Xbox 360 had a terrifying failure rate. It is well established and not just Microsoft bashing. I suppose it was a "thrilling" experience not knowing how long your machine would last.
Because it is a terrible and flawed metric. There are an absolute tonne of 'brown' people. A small(ish?) subset of those despise americans and an even smaller subset of those are willing to blow up innocent americans. Racial profiling makes ignorant and uneducated people feel better/safer but really just pollutes your false positives with a few billion extras while making it easier for people who don't look quite so brown to walk right by.
It's more likely they would look at it as an input-output system. How much return do they get for how much investment? I think it is obvious that they get far more return on far less investment on IOS than on OS X.
I was being facetious implying that this is not really that far outside of Apple normal behaviour. Although I'm not convinced that they have said no install media. I didn't find any confirmation on that.
If you can't fit everything on your mobile device then I guess you will have to choose a subset of your collection to make it fit while keeping the whole collection synched to whatever has the storage space to accommodate it. Kind of like how I'm sure you are doing it now.
I'm sure they'd be happy to do it for you at the Apple Store. You're not supposed to be servicing the hard drive in the first place as I understand it.
Many things can set off a violent reaction. They are unpredictable. Their job is to waltz onto a bunch of strangers properties which is something dogs commonly take issue with. What their training should be is "dogs are dangerous and hard to predict. Do not take unnecessary risks". You think you have dogs figured out and you do not. Now I like dogs and deal with them the same way and I have never had a problem. But a strange dog and especially a strange dog with the owner not present is absolutely an unnecessary danger.
Thing about scene data is that it gets sent once. You then perform transforms on the models, textures & maps etc. I'm figuring that although there will be an initial load phase for complex scenes, textures and the like, there wont actually be an enormous amount of traffic from that point on.
And people complain about long load times from slow(ish) harddrives (and abhor the load times from optical media)! Imagine if every load period had to come from the internet. You're talking about giving up the last couple decades of progress for the only purpose of giving the, already asshole, publishers more power to be assholes.
Just because two things act similarly does not mean that one copied the other. Patents are supposed to follow a certain non-obvious clause. If you sit someone from the field down and say "accomplish this task" and they do it the same way Microsoft did it's really not supposed to be patentable. The problem with software patents are that many of them are the most simple and obvious method of achieving the goal. "Innovate" does not mean go "5+5-8" instead of going "1+1".
Some things are just unpatentable and if they are patented it causes unending grief. To use the famous slashdot car analogy and give you the task to drive across town. But you cannot have rubber touch pavement because Microsoft did that last week and patented it. So now what are you going to do? You're stuck using wooden wheels unless you can come up with some magic material that cannot contain any rubber compound. And you have to do all this just to go pick up milk from the store.
I believe I may have seen once in a special feature on a Stargate DVD that they are convenient in how they fire. The casings fall straight down as opposed to off to the side. If they go to the side the other actors can be hit with them and I guess that just doesn't look as good.
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They made a big fuss about it because those email addresses should not have been broadcast to anyone who asked for them. An unlocked door is not a valid analogy unless it also had a big sign that read "200 OK; Come on in!".
I would agree with you if they were selling something. But they've been very clear they're only "licensing" it to you. It's either a license or property and they should not be able to pick and choose properties from both for the clear purpose of reaming the customer the most.
Resistance is futile jokes happen far less than sharks with lasers. That joke is made several times a day on this site (probably because lasers are more common than cyborgs). The fact that I notice that really admits that I read far too many comments on this site but I do notice a downward trend of useful comments. When ~10 year old memes make up 10%-20% of commenting material then people who have been coming here for discussion will tend to get fed up. They will want to discourage it, or at least have a way to moderate it out of their view. The -1 with no karma effect actually isn't that bad of an idea. It doesn't punish people who are just, as you said, having light fun but also doesn't subject others who know they don't want to see it.
Of course this annoying slashcode is far more harmful to discussion than memes ever could be. Why the hell does my browser window have to jump around every time I click this textbox?
In that case we better get rid of the Troll mod. Some people seem to find trolling funny. I'm led to believe that's why they do it. There are some people here that do get sick of these old memes and feel that they harm the discussion. How many times, for instance, have sharks been mentioned in this thread? Perhaps that might have been a cute joke but not after already having to glaze over twelve other shark jokes. Although I think perhaps the "Overrated" mod option kind of covers this phenomenon.
The real problem is that you can't always go after hackers. To reuse the bank analogy if the vault had an open tunnel going all the way to North Korea then it would most definitely be the bank's job to seal it. If someone waltzes in from North Korea and steals everything there's no going after them. No one is saying don't go after hackers (well, mostly no one) but there is a higher burden of responsibility to the owners of the compromised networks. They must do what is in their power to ensure outside attackers cannot get in.
Experts in the field is who I would listen to advice from. In this case people who have been gaming for years and have seen and understand why this practice is bad for consumers. They also have a solution that was often practiced in days of yore. Release the software that is necessary to use the product that has been purchased.
Supposedly there is some kind of representational democracy in the united states. Perhaps that should be put to use? Do you not think most people will agree that once a product is purchased it should continue to function without the grace of the producer?
"We have to start a war! We built all these weapons and they're going to go bad!"
I think the GP's point was to put those resources into constructive things like infrastructure. Not waste them on things that go boom. Whether or not munitions have a shelf live does not negate the fact that they are money and resources spent and lost. Have too many bullets? Don't buy so many.
It is still a licensing issue and not patent as I see it. Does anything stop them from using the BluRay spec while not using the name and not reading BluRay movies/discs as long as they are paying the patent fees (which I'm fairly convinced they already are for the most part)? There may be an issue there that I don't see but doing this would allow them to use off the shelf parts and manufacturing ie. cheaper.
So being as they specifically quoted patent fees as the issue and not licensing (perhaps them just simplifying for the masses) and the fact that they are most certainly still paying patent fees leads me to conclude that this is mostly about piracy and not patent fees. Especially since patent fees just get passed on to the consumer anyway.
That's because mobile devices do not have R700 GPUs in them. They have some kind of low power graphics chip usually built into the CPU itself. Desktop GPUs such as this one usually won't work without at least a 500Watt power supply for a reason.
How many patent fees can this avoid? They're still going to be using patented optical media technologies. They might not have to license the DVD or BluRay names but the actual technologies will be the same. This is certainly about piracy (which is well within their right). The GDROM didn't help Sega because they allowed CDROMs also but the Gamecube proprietary format did a pretty good job of stopping piracy if I'm not mistaken.
As far as overheating with earlier models, the PS3 was in the same boat, just people like to attack Microsoft because they are Microsoft.
Woa, just woa. That is absolutely not true. The Xbox 360 had a terrifying failure rate. It is well established and not just Microsoft bashing. I suppose it was a "thrilling" experience not knowing how long your machine would last.
Because it is a terrible and flawed metric. There are an absolute tonne of 'brown' people. A small(ish?) subset of those despise americans and an even smaller subset of those are willing to blow up innocent americans. Racial profiling makes ignorant and uneducated people feel better/safer but really just pollutes your false positives with a few billion extras while making it easier for people who don't look quite so brown to walk right by.
It's more likely they would look at it as an input-output system. How much return do they get for how much investment? I think it is obvious that they get far more return on far less investment on IOS than on OS X.
I'm fairly certain they only want to make leasing a system they claim to be selling illegal. It is slightly false advertising after all.
I was being facetious implying that this is not really that far outside of Apple normal behaviour. Although I'm not convinced that they have said no install media. I didn't find any confirmation on that.
If you can't fit everything on your mobile device then I guess you will have to choose a subset of your collection to make it fit while keeping the whole collection synched to whatever has the storage space to accommodate it. Kind of like how I'm sure you are doing it now.
I'm sure they'd be happy to do it for you at the Apple Store. You're not supposed to be servicing the hard drive in the first place as I understand it.
Many things can set off a violent reaction. They are unpredictable. Their job is to waltz onto a bunch of strangers properties which is something dogs commonly take issue with. What their training should be is "dogs are dangerous and hard to predict. Do not take unnecessary risks". You think you have dogs figured out and you do not. Now I like dogs and deal with them the same way and I have never had a problem. But a strange dog and especially a strange dog with the owner not present is absolutely an unnecessary danger.
Thing about scene data is that it gets sent once. You then perform transforms on the models, textures & maps etc. I'm figuring that although there will be an initial load phase for complex scenes, textures and the like, there wont actually be an enormous amount of traffic from that point on.
And people complain about long load times from slow(ish) harddrives (and abhor the load times from optical media)! Imagine if every load period had to come from the internet. You're talking about giving up the last couple decades of progress for the only purpose of giving the, already asshole, publishers more power to be assholes.
Not to disagree with your point but dog breeders often make you sign a contract saying that dog you just bought will never breed.
Just because two things act similarly does not mean that one copied the other. Patents are supposed to follow a certain non-obvious clause. If you sit someone from the field down and say "accomplish this task" and they do it the same way Microsoft did it's really not supposed to be patentable. The problem with software patents are that many of them are the most simple and obvious method of achieving the goal. "Innovate" does not mean go "5+5-8" instead of going "1+1".
Some things are just unpatentable and if they are patented it causes unending grief. To use the famous slashdot car analogy and give you the task to drive across town. But you cannot have rubber touch pavement because Microsoft did that last week and patented it. So now what are you going to do? You're stuck using wooden wheels unless you can come up with some magic material that cannot contain any rubber compound. And you have to do all this just to go pick up milk from the store.
I believe I may have seen once in a special feature on a Stargate DVD that they are convenient in how they fire. The casings fall straight down as opposed to off to the side. If they go to the side the other actors can be hit with them and I guess that just doesn't look as good.
It's a caricature. Somewhat like BadAnalogyGuy only less amusing. A successful toll campaign though it would seem.
Also it has become fairly clear they do hate you for your freedoms. But I think that rings true for all politicians.
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