The DRM we know and hate tries to obliterate fair use through unfair restrictions.
Steam is a platform where you often get your fair use (downloading your own games all the times you want and being able to backup them using Steam itself), fair restriction (i.e. only being able to use the game through my account)... and very very often, added value.
Steam is DRM how it should be, it just constraints the use of the stuff I buy to me, however I want to use it.
Aye, and the publisher is the idiot to blame here.
Geolocalization, and other stuff like for example no pre-sale discount (i.e. Prototype) are up to the publisher, publisher that I see as insulting me as its potential customer. Publisher, not Steam, is the one to be hated here.
Publishers impose those kind of restrictions themselves, if Steam's fine-print supports them it must be just for the sake of policy compatibility; if they didn't allow it they would be economically poor idealists... besides, being in the same arena, other publishers often put an example... like CD Projekt with it's stance against DRM.
Steam allows and promotes the delivery of added value to the games, as well as providing a solid platform for content delivery. Where else can you get those awesome weekend deals?.
Sure, its DRM after all, but a very positive one. I don't mind paying for my games there and most of us that like Steam is because we love Valve.
Steam is DRM that works for the consumer, they even warn me of other games' DRM.
I can download my games all the times I want, from my account and it works only for my account.
Fair use & fair restriction, perfect couple; the rest is up to that idiot publisher for me to help decide on pirating it's stuff or not.
This has been a common sentiment and practice among most of the people I know and work with (except some teachers for obvious reasons).
I live in Mexico, spanish is my mother-language, and I absolutely hate seeing code in spanish (not only comments) for several reasons:
- Its generally longer
- Harder to remember & predict
- Feels dirty, less formal and coding standards tend to mean squat
- Regardless, english is always present, so the code ends up being in two languages
Everyone googles for solutions/implementations that are most of the times in english, so you get used to it. As it has been said, its a non-problem, regardless, it should be known and reassured, because some people do it.
Actually, I only use firefox when I am deving, I like Chrome, feels so light.
Anyhow, I don't think the google guys never meant it to nom a big slice the market since they said they just wanted the other guys taking from it whatever they thought was worth it (read "the comic").
Yeah, Firefox is definetly better, more popular, and I hope it always stays like that. I will still be using Chrome for my normal surfing.
Oh yeah and AdBlock is for pansies =)
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IE is not supported because these guys are using websockets and other HTML5 stuff; IE does not support these whilst *real modern* browsers do.
It is not fanboyism, they are just not waiting for IE to catch up with the technology.
The DRM we know and hate tries to obliterate fair use through unfair restrictions.
Steam is a platform where you often get your fair use (downloading your own games all the times you want and being able to backup them using Steam itself), fair restriction (i.e. only being able to use the game through my account)... and very very often, added value.
Steam is DRM how it should be, it just constraints the use of the stuff I buy to me, however I want to use it.
Aye, and the publisher is the idiot to blame here.
Geolocalization, and other stuff like for example no pre-sale discount (i.e. Prototype) are up to the publisher, publisher that I see as insulting me as its potential customer. Publisher, not Steam, is the one to be hated here.
Publishers impose those kind of restrictions themselves, if Steam's fine-print supports them it must be just for the sake of policy compatibility; if they didn't allow it they would be economically poor idealists... besides, being in the same arena, other publishers often put an example... like CD Projekt with it's stance against DRM.
Steam allows and promotes the delivery of added value to the games, as well as providing a solid platform for content delivery. Where else can you get those awesome weekend deals?.
Sure, its DRM after all, but a very positive one. I don't mind paying for my games there and most of us that like Steam is because we love Valve.
Steam is DRM that works for the consumer, they even warn me of other games' DRM.
I can download my games all the times I want, from my account and it works only for my account.
Fair use & fair restriction, perfect couple; the rest is up to that idiot publisher for me to help decide on pirating it's stuff or not.
and it is called Steam
This has been a common sentiment and practice among most of the people I know and work with (except some teachers for obvious reasons).
I live in Mexico, spanish is my mother-language, and I absolutely hate seeing code in spanish (not only comments) for several reasons:
- Its generally longer
- Harder to remember & predict
- Feels dirty, less formal and coding standards tend to mean squat
- Regardless, english is always present, so the code ends up being in two languages
Everyone googles for solutions/implementations that are most of the times in english, so you get used to it. As it has been said, its a non-problem, regardless, it should be known and reassured, because some people do it.
...side by side with Firefox.
Actually, I only use firefox when I am deving, I like Chrome, feels so light.
Anyhow, I don't think the google guys never meant it to nom a big slice the market since they said they just wanted the other guys taking from it whatever they thought was worth it (read "the comic"). Yeah, Firefox is definetly better, more popular, and I hope it always stays like that. I will still be using Chrome for my normal surfing. Oh yeah and AdBlock is for pansies =)
ISO, W3C, who is next?, yeah... I can see them going with the IEEE to propose another unnecesary standard.
Seriously, the few times i've trusted photo links by msn and it ends up being a bear attack it's always the face.