No, but you don't often see lesbians in abusive relationships. I think just about everyone alive knows at least a few girls who've been in abusive relationships and keep going back to get beat again and again.
99.9999% of people who have games with CD checks arent fussed by them.
CD checks are NOT DRM. A CD check does NOT require contacting a companies server to get permission to use the software that you purchased. Learn what you're talking about before you open your mouth.
"Good for a whole lot of tasks" is not the same as "decently equipped" meaning large HD, good amount of RAM where you can really multi-task with no lag, most basic CPU intensive tasks (such as compressing / uncompressing a file) don't take forever, a usable keyboard and decent screen size. Yes, netbooks have their place (such as for students on the go all the time), but most people prefer a real laptop.
2) Windows won't run on ARM
People don't care. They want familiar".
Vista wasn't familiar to XP in the slightest - yet most people were perfectly fine with learning where everything was. All they have to do is simplify software repositories on Linux (such as what Ubuntu is working on doing) and work a bit more on improving the IM clients (really, despite the fact that the devs of Pidgin don't care about video chat, most users do care about it - and yes, I use pidgin on all my different OS's, even Win 7) people would be more than willing to use it. Besides, never having to PAY for software again (unless you chose to pay for something) would be a huge selling point to a lot of people.
The "hardcore" players in MMO's are not exactly the best judge of what makes a good game, or else they probably wouldn't be playing MMO's (yes, they're fun, but they're very repetitive and interaction with NPC's is very shallow).
last time I checked...he who makes the game, makes the rules.
In a sense, that's true. However, if he who makes the game wants to stay in business as opposed to begging on the street, they'll let the customers decide what they want in the game.
Nah, 4chan doesn't have the balls to stand up to a company. They only terrorize and threaten 16 year old girls who made a youtube video for their friends.
I tried explaining this very thing to a customer service person at 2K recently on the Bioshock 2 forums. They got all the complaints from Bioshocks DRM, so what did they do for Bioshock 2? They made the DRM even worse. Since everyone has easy access to all the media they want for FREE, you have to give people a reason to buy your product - the only reason any employee at a game company I've talked to has been able to give me for why people should purchase instead of pirate is "pirating is illegal". Sorry, but that's not a valid reason for why your product is superior.
I think EA (scary to say this about EA) is actually on the right track with Mass Effect 2 - you got free DLC if you purchased the game (which people pirating it have to go through a little more trouble of finding and getting the cracked DLC) and there's no DRM on the game - just a disc check (ok, well the DLC has to connect to their servers the first time, but hopefully they'll change that too - perhaps when you first get the DLC it binds it to your cd-key).
Except that it's rarely "$1" plus $1 times a shit ton of games / downloaded ebooks / mp3's / movies is a LOT of money. This DOES effect everyone because the companies ARE trying to push it to a pay-per-pay system where you are nothing more than a renter paying every time you use what you purchased
I'm well aware that asshole companies and people like you who just bend over and take it will destroy the gaming industry. When that happens, I'll simply stop getting new games and just replay all the ones I've built up over the last couple of decades.
I dunno, I think if they start rolling out decently equipped ARM netbooks / laptops with around 15 hour real world battery life, anyone who's not a gamer would say "Screw Windows" real quick.
I don't like this concept, but I'm not willing to change my behavior for somebody else's crusade...
You mean that you don't value your rights as a consumer or care about what you purchase being usable in a few years. That's the real problem with any DRM that has activation limits / requires online activation - at any time they can turn off that activation server and the software / media you bought is useless. You being dumb enough to buy it is exactly why they put this crap in - because they know that you'll buy it no matter what. You're like the dumb girl who keeps going back to her abusive girlfriend. YOU are the cause of the problem.
Anyway, I like how someone that starts a debate is now modded as "Troll" and an army of knights in shiny armors having the same kind of single-sided argument get modded Informative and Insightful.
Except you didn't "start a debate", you made a fallacious argument claiming that just because someone doesn't want Apple controlling what software they run on their phone that they are pirating software. At best you were just guilty of being uninformed, at worst, a troll. Given that you have a slashdot account, most people will guess that you know enough about technology to know that wanting to be able to choose what apps you want to run has nothing to do with piracy, thus you were modded a troll. I have mod points (not using them so I could post in this topic) and I'd have modded you troll too - and no, I haven't jailbroken my iPhone.
Write once, run everywhere doesn't work when the basic functionality of each device varies so much.
Really? Because it's worked damn well for Java. All they need is to 1) really speed up Java or 2) use a similar (but faster) language for writing phone apps. All you have to do then is make sure that each OS runs that interpreted language - problem solved.
Just because people buy it because "OMFG! It's from APPLE!!!", doesn't mean that they will LIKE it. I think it will sell a lot (at least at first, and mostly to fanboys and the uninformed masses), but I think most of them will quickly lose interest in it due to it's lack of advancement over an iPhone / iPod Touch which you can carry with you everywhere you go.
The iPad has amazing potential, it's just that Steve Jobs needs to realize that locking down a phone (which is understandable because you want the phone part to be reliable) is very different from locking down a computer (which an iPad IS a computer, it's just that the software prevents you from using it as more than a media device). If Apple lightens the frack up and allows handwriting (for all apps) and say an iPad only non-certified app store where Apple just checks to make sure the programs aren't malicious, then I see the iPad being an amazing device. Hopefully Apple does some major reworking of the software side in the next year.
The iPad WOULD be a game changer if Apple hadn't screwed up the software side of it. If Apple fixes the software (possibly in the 2.0 release with updated hardware too), then the iPad will be a great device. However, it's limited to doing the exact same things as an iPhone / iPod Touch because of Apple's choices with the OS and apps.
I own an iPhone 3GS and it's fantastic - however, a blown up version of it where the only improved functionality is a bigger screen for watching movies / reading books is NOT worth another $500-$830 (and that's not even including charges if you get 3G service for it).
I'm not trying to insult you, but I think you just haven't fully realized how horribly limited the iPad is on the software side. I was very excited about it before it came out, still pretty excited after I saw the announcement, and then got progressively less excited the more I found out about the details and the more I realized that it doesn't do a single thing that my iPhone doesn't already do.
True, but that's not a failure on the part of other devices. It's a failure on Apple's part to make the iPad something everyone WANTS to buy. This is the first fumble I've seen out of Apple in a long time - hopefully they'll fix it in a year when the iPad 2.0 goes on sale.
You wanted an blown up iPod Touch? I sure didn't - I wanted a computer (as did every other person, nerd and non-nerd alike, that I know of who's heard of the iPad). You love the iPad, I'm assuming that you'll get the dock for it? Well that's how you can look at this - the U1 tablet and then the netbook part of it is a dock that also gives you a full OS as well. I'd prefer a straight tablet, but this seems to be the best of both worlds (iPad and a real computer) with the added bonus of not having to deal with Apple's artificial limitations on what you can do with it / what you can run on it.
Or if you were in the market for a $300-$400 netbook and wanted an iPad (base price $500), this fills both roles nicely. I'm personally waiting for HP's new tablet (sorry, "slate"), but if that is too expensive or fails to impress, I'd definitely give this a look.
As Microsoft keeps tightening up on people, I really have to wonder why anyone still puts up with it.
Because some people aren't ready to throw away their software library (such as gamers). If companies made games for Linux, you better believe I'd never touch Windows again. And no, WINE isn't a valid alternative since it doesn't run every game and even the ones it does run don't always work perfectly.
Either you're a corporate tool or a troll, I'm not sure which. Either way, you've yet to make a point other than "it's illegal to violate copyright laws", but since companies violate the first-sale doctrine with DRM, I'm not going to feel bad about their distribution rights being violated.
But hey, you keep fighting for companies "right" to fuck over their consumers - that's the way to a better future!
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No, but you don't often see lesbians in abusive relationships. I think just about everyone alive knows at least a few girls who've been in abusive relationships and keep going back to get beat again and again.
I know you're just trolling but...
99.9999% of people who have games with CD checks arent fussed by them.
CD checks are NOT DRM. A CD check does NOT require contacting a companies server to get permission to use the software that you purchased. Learn what you're talking about before you open your mouth.
"Good for a whole lot of tasks" is not the same as "decently equipped" meaning large HD, good amount of RAM where you can really multi-task with no lag, most basic CPU intensive tasks (such as compressing / uncompressing a file) don't take forever, a usable keyboard and decent screen size. Yes, netbooks have their place (such as for students on the go all the time), but most people prefer a real laptop.
2) Windows won't run on ARM
People don't care. They want familiar".
Vista wasn't familiar to XP in the slightest - yet most people were perfectly fine with learning where everything was. All they have to do is simplify software repositories on Linux (such as what Ubuntu is working on doing) and work a bit more on improving the IM clients (really, despite the fact that the devs of Pidgin don't care about video chat, most users do care about it - and yes, I use pidgin on all my different OS's, even Win 7) people would be more than willing to use it. Besides, never having to PAY for software again (unless you chose to pay for something) would be a huge selling point to a lot of people.
The "hardcore" players in MMO's are not exactly the best judge of what makes a good game, or else they probably wouldn't be playing MMO's (yes, they're fun, but they're very repetitive and interaction with NPC's is very shallow).
last time I checked...he who makes the game, makes the rules.
In a sense, that's true. However, if he who makes the game wants to stay in business as opposed to begging on the street, they'll let the customers decide what they want in the game.
Nah, 4chan doesn't have the balls to stand up to a company. They only terrorize and threaten 16 year old girls who made a youtube video for their friends.
I tried explaining this very thing to a customer service person at 2K recently on the Bioshock 2 forums. They got all the complaints from Bioshocks DRM, so what did they do for Bioshock 2? They made the DRM even worse. Since everyone has easy access to all the media they want for FREE, you have to give people a reason to buy your product - the only reason any employee at a game company I've talked to has been able to give me for why people should purchase instead of pirate is "pirating is illegal". Sorry, but that's not a valid reason for why your product is superior.
I think EA (scary to say this about EA) is actually on the right track with Mass Effect 2 - you got free DLC if you purchased the game (which people pirating it have to go through a little more trouble of finding and getting the cracked DLC) and there's no DRM on the game - just a disc check (ok, well the DLC has to connect to their servers the first time, but hopefully they'll change that too - perhaps when you first get the DLC it binds it to your cd-key).
1) The Eee is hardly a "decently equipped" laptop
2) Windows won't run on ARM
I meant boyfriend.......that's what I get for posting at 3:30am instead of sleeping!
Except that it's rarely "$1" plus $1 times a shit ton of games / downloaded ebooks / mp3's / movies is a LOT of money. This DOES effect everyone because the companies ARE trying to push it to a pay-per-pay system where you are nothing more than a renter paying every time you use what you purchased
I'm well aware that asshole companies and people like you who just bend over and take it will destroy the gaming industry. When that happens, I'll simply stop getting new games and just replay all the ones I've built up over the last couple of decades.
I dunno, I think if they start rolling out decently equipped ARM netbooks / laptops with around 15 hour real world battery life, anyone who's not a gamer would say "Screw Windows" real quick.
I don't like this concept, but I'm not willing to change my behavior for somebody else's crusade...
You mean that you don't value your rights as a consumer or care about what you purchase being usable in a few years. That's the real problem with any DRM that has activation limits / requires online activation - at any time they can turn off that activation server and the software / media you bought is useless. You being dumb enough to buy it is exactly why they put this crap in - because they know that you'll buy it no matter what. You're like the dumb girl who keeps going back to her abusive girlfriend. YOU are the cause of the problem.
You have to have a company to sign up for ADC; the form won't let you continue if you leave the "Company" field blank.
Well that's easy - put "*your name here* Inc." They have no way to prove that you're not starting up your own company / 1099 gig.
Anyway, I like how someone that starts a debate is now modded as "Troll" and an army of knights in shiny armors having the same kind of single-sided argument get modded Informative and Insightful.
Except you didn't "start a debate", you made a fallacious argument claiming that just because someone doesn't want Apple controlling what software they run on their phone that they are pirating software. At best you were just guilty of being uninformed, at worst, a troll. Given that you have a slashdot account, most people will guess that you know enough about technology to know that wanting to be able to choose what apps you want to run has nothing to do with piracy, thus you were modded a troll. I have mod points (not using them so I could post in this topic) and I'd have modded you troll too - and no, I haven't jailbroken my iPhone.
Really? Because I'd swear I paid a few hundred for my iPhone, not for "iPhone software useage rights".
cede , not seed.
Perhaps he was talking about Apple seeding OSX torrents? ;)
Write once, run everywhere doesn't work when the basic functionality of each device varies so much.
Really? Because it's worked damn well for Java. All they need is to 1) really speed up Java or 2) use a similar (but faster) language for writing phone apps. All you have to do then is make sure that each OS runs that interpreted language - problem solved.
Just because people buy it because "OMFG! It's from APPLE!!!", doesn't mean that they will LIKE it. I think it will sell a lot (at least at first, and mostly to fanboys and the uninformed masses), but I think most of them will quickly lose interest in it due to it's lack of advancement over an iPhone / iPod Touch which you can carry with you everywhere you go.
The iPad has amazing potential, it's just that Steve Jobs needs to realize that locking down a phone (which is understandable because you want the phone part to be reliable) is very different from locking down a computer (which an iPad IS a computer, it's just that the software prevents you from using it as more than a media device). If Apple lightens the frack up and allows handwriting (for all apps) and say an iPad only non-certified app store where Apple just checks to make sure the programs aren't malicious, then I see the iPad being an amazing device. Hopefully Apple does some major reworking of the software side in the next year.
The iPad WOULD be a game changer if Apple hadn't screwed up the software side of it. If Apple fixes the software (possibly in the 2.0 release with updated hardware too), then the iPad will be a great device. However, it's limited to doing the exact same things as an iPhone / iPod Touch because of Apple's choices with the OS and apps.
I own an iPhone 3GS and it's fantastic - however, a blown up version of it where the only improved functionality is a bigger screen for watching movies / reading books is NOT worth another $500-$830 (and that's not even including charges if you get 3G service for it).
I'm not trying to insult you, but I think you just haven't fully realized how horribly limited the iPad is on the software side. I was very excited about it before it came out, still pretty excited after I saw the announcement, and then got progressively less excited the more I found out about the details and the more I realized that it doesn't do a single thing that my iPhone doesn't already do.
Sorry, there's still no mythical iPad killer.
True, but that's not a failure on the part of other devices. It's a failure on Apple's part to make the iPad something everyone WANTS to buy. This is the first fumble I've seen out of Apple in a long time - hopefully they'll fix it in a year when the iPad 2.0 goes on sale.
You wanted an blown up iPod Touch? I sure didn't - I wanted a computer (as did every other person, nerd and non-nerd alike, that I know of who's heard of the iPad). You love the iPad, I'm assuming that you'll get the dock for it? Well that's how you can look at this - the U1 tablet and then the netbook part of it is a dock that also gives you a full OS as well. I'd prefer a straight tablet, but this seems to be the best of both worlds (iPad and a real computer) with the added bonus of not having to deal with Apple's artificial limitations on what you can do with it / what you can run on it.
Or if you were in the market for a $300-$400 netbook and wanted an iPad (base price $500), this fills both roles nicely. I'm personally waiting for HP's new tablet (sorry, "slate"), but if that is too expensive or fails to impress, I'd definitely give this a look.
It's still running Linux as the secondary OS, which means that people will modify it to fix any shortcomings it may have.
As Microsoft keeps tightening up on people, I really have to wonder why anyone still puts up with it.
Because some people aren't ready to throw away their software library (such as gamers). If companies made games for Linux, you better believe I'd never touch Windows again. And no, WINE isn't a valid alternative since it doesn't run every game and even the ones it does run don't always work perfectly.
Either you're a corporate tool or a troll, I'm not sure which. Either way, you've yet to make a point other than "it's illegal to violate copyright laws", but since companies violate the first-sale doctrine with DRM, I'm not going to feel bad about their distribution rights being violated.
But hey, you keep fighting for companies "right" to fuck over their consumers - that's the way to a better future!