Well, look at it from this perspective, your daughter and son did not grow up having only you and your wife as the social other. Altough parents are, and at young age the mother specially, the greatest other, they obviously are in a society where feminine=pink and male=blue (or digger).
The way you act as a man and your wife as a woman surely influenced them - and is culturally/socially constructed Other family/friends too play roles in front of them, and they learn, of course.
Well, thats if you didn't put 'em on a plastic bubble for childhood as an evil anthropology experiment!:P
Devede is a really good gui and adds a lot of functionality. And uses mencoder, which as of 1.0rc2 implements SMP quite nicely. I've been using it the last few days for family videos, on an AMD64 X2, and it is working flawlessly using both cores.
Copy protection is just plain useless! It's a hassle to anyone who can afford to buy the game, for the reasons already posted - having to carry the media around, internet connection, serial numbers. And if you enforce your right to use and enjoy the work for which you have already paid for, free of this annoyance, you have to rely on third-party software, non-code-free - as much as we may salute the authors oh these.
So, just drop copy protection! It's plain DRM for software : installs unwanted software and deprives the user of choice.
Of course i won't be buying this if the trend goes on. But then again, as with Music and Cinema, would everyone who downloads a "cracked version" be buying the game? I don't think that a reasonable argument.
Instead, the try and buy - wich is also a discourse present in the "cracking scene" - seems more plausible.
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"Cloud" DRM! Damn, next you know be nanobots inside your game DVD waiting to strike...
Well, look at it from this perspective, your daughter and son did not grow up having only you and your wife as the social other. Altough parents are, and at young age the mother specially, the greatest other, they obviously are in a society where feminine=pink and male=blue (or digger).
:P
The way you act as a man and your wife as a woman surely influenced them - and is culturally/socially constructed Other family/friends too play roles in front of them, and they learn, of course.
Well, thats if you didn't put 'em on a plastic bubble for childhood as an evil anthropology experiment!
Devede is a really good gui and adds a lot of functionality. And uses mencoder, which as of 1.0rc2 implements SMP quite nicely. I've been using it the last few days for family videos, on an AMD64 X2, and it is working flawlessly using both cores.
Copy protection is just plain useless! It's a hassle to anyone who can afford to buy the game, for the reasons already posted - having to carry the media around, internet connection, serial numbers. And if you enforce your right to use and enjoy the work for which you have already paid for, free of this annoyance, you have to rely on third-party software, non-code-free - as much as we may salute the authors oh these.
So, just drop copy protection! It's plain DRM for software : installs unwanted software and deprives the user of choice.
Of course i won't be buying this if the trend goes on. But then again, as with Music and Cinema, would everyone who downloads a "cracked version" be buying the game? I don't think that a reasonable argument.
Instead, the try and buy - wich is also a discourse present in the "cracking scene" - seems more plausible.