It's a fair point, but remember that growing resistant to one thing typically makes microbes weaker to others. Sometimes you can treat multi-resistant TB with penicillin.
You just convinced me to support DRM, preferably as nefarious and evil as possible. Congratulations.
Idea: implant compliance chips in people's necks as part of the installation procedure (but don't tell them it's happening). Then we can send jolts of pain whenever they try to use cheating programs.
You make a fair point. That said, I think that it would reduce the number of people willing/able/non-lazy enough to break it. Remember, boring DRM = less interesting.
More importantly, it wouldn't dissuade honest customers. We can NEVER stop pirates.
There is no more evidence for creationism than there is for absurd theories like the IPU (may Her Grace forgive me) and the FSM, I'm afraid. I've read their materials, their textbooks. They are full of misinterpretations, science that was current two decades ago, and outright false facts presented as truth.
A fact which contradicts natural selection is not the same as a fact which supports creationism. That is the product of a false dichotomy.
Angry people will be angry and hateful people will be hateful regardless of their beliefs. Those only determine how easy their arguments are to destroy, not what they believe.
Yes. I remember learning LaMarckism and other ancient views (that many "teach the controversy" people seem to think is what evolution claims), and why it is utterly false and not science.
Of course you can't disprove creationism. I claim that God created all the fossils and other evidence to plant doubt and tempt us. How can you prove me wrong? You cannot. This simple lack of falsifiability is why creationism is not, and never will be, science.
I fail to see how that affects anything. The idea here is that they're going after copies they download off BT...making available + transferring = infringement.
What about watermarking as DRM? It doesn't strike me as that objectionable, and if you started pressing criminal charges against people found distributing their copies...
Plus it works under wine. My pirated versions of Valve games don't. It's more I'm too distrustful of anyone but myself managing my digital rights after too many burns.
The companies are saying trust us. My response is, trust me. You trust me and I won't spread your game. I won't steal it. I have never pirated a game without DRM when I could still buy it legally (sorry Microprose games from '85)
Raise arms against me and see what someone of even average intelligence can do to all your best-laid plans.
To clarify, I mention Bioshock despite it not being from EA as it also uses SecuROM. I should probably have said that the industry as a whole and/or securom has a lot of trust to regain.
It's too bad; we've seen they're listening and they're willing to compromise. Sadly this is too little too late. At this point I'm going to have to demand full disclosure on label, no spyware and no viruses. EA has a lot to do to re-earn my trust after Bioshock, Spore, etc.
I still play their games from the 80s on my Commodore 64.
I think it's a common tendency for engineers to blame lack of engineering knowledge for bosses who suck at managing. That accounts for a lot of the complaining.
These aren't the kind of things you learn at business school. My friends at Wharton tell me it's mostly liquor tolerance;P
Wouldn't buying the linked Nike shoe be an implicit license to use the patent? Meaning you don't have to use it their way?
I'm pretty sure that a patent license doesn't work the same way as a EULA, and there are rather strict limits on what restrictions you can impose on licensees. But IANAL.
No I think that would be vendor lock in, gaming, inertia, and lower prices. But good guess.
But with shit like Vista, who knows?
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A good manager has two options:
1) Listen to me (and others) and trust us, after we have shown ourselves to be trustworthy and competent. 2) Be smarter than me at whatever it is I do
I've worked with both kinds, but if they're pleasant, have manageable egos, and know what they know and what they don't everything goes smooth as clockwork. I've never had a bad boss.
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I have no clue what a carburetor is. I don't care. Don't use cars much.
You shouldn't assume much at all is general knowledge; I know far too many linux fanbois at my school who think everyone somehow is born knowing how things like netboot, dhcp, and computer internals work. We tend to see the things we know as elementary and hte things others know as more difficult, or so it seems to me.
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Agree agree agree. I've had a good time working at utterly incompetent workplaces because the bosses 2-3 levels up from me shielded me from the idiocy above me. They deserved their perks, believe me.
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It's a fair point, but remember that growing resistant to one thing typically makes microbes weaker to others. Sometimes you can treat multi-resistant TB with penicillin.
Suits me just fine when they can fix my problem. I don't care what the accent is if you are obviously unqualified.
My apologies for ever implying the government is human;)
Fair point, I was thinking more along the lines of online distribution
You just convinced me to support DRM, preferably as nefarious and evil as possible. Congratulations.
Idea: implant compliance chips in people's necks as part of the installation procedure (but don't tell them it's happening). Then we can send jolts of pain whenever they try to use cheating programs.
Quick, let's patent it!
LaMarckism has been disproven. I was saying LaMarckism is false and creationism is not falsifiabile. You misread my awkwardly constructed sentence.
You make a fair point. That said, I think that it would reduce the number of people willing/able/non-lazy enough to break it. Remember, boring DRM = less interesting.
More importantly, it wouldn't dissuade honest customers. We can NEVER stop pirates.
Humans wrote the bible; God wrote the rocks.
There is no more evidence for creationism than there is for absurd theories like the IPU (may Her Grace forgive me) and the FSM, I'm afraid. I've read their materials, their textbooks. They are full of misinterpretations, science that was current two decades ago, and outright false facts presented as truth.
A fact which contradicts natural selection is not the same as a fact which supports creationism. That is the product of a false dichotomy.
Angry people will be angry and hateful people will be hateful regardless of their beliefs. Those only determine how easy their arguments are to destroy, not what they believe.
Yes. I remember learning LaMarckism and other ancient views (that many "teach the controversy" people seem to think is what evolution claims), and why it is utterly false and not science.
Of course you can't disprove creationism. I claim that God created all the fossils and other evidence to plant doubt and tempt us. How can you prove me wrong? You cannot. This simple lack of falsifiability is why creationism is not, and never will be, science.
I fail to see how that affects anything. The idea here is that they're going after copies they download off BT...making available + transferring = infringement.
What about watermarking as DRM? It doesn't strike me as that objectionable, and if you started pressing criminal charges against people found distributing their copies...
Plus it works under wine. My pirated versions of Valve games don't. It's more I'm too distrustful of anyone but myself managing my digital rights after too many burns.
The companies are saying trust us. My response is, trust me. You trust me and I won't spread your game. I won't steal it. I have never pirated a game without DRM when I could still buy it legally (sorry Microprose games from '85)
Raise arms against me and see what someone of even average intelligence can do to all your best-laid plans.
To clarify, I mention Bioshock despite it not being from EA as it also uses SecuROM. I should probably have said that the industry as a whole and/or securom has a lot of trust to regain.
To paraphrase an earlier comment, the goal here is to eliminate the right of first sale, not to prevent piracy.
You'd win in small claims court most likely; for the price of a game + legal fees companies won't usually bother even showing up.
It's too bad; we've seen they're listening and they're willing to compromise. Sadly this is too little too late. At this point I'm going to have to demand full disclosure on label, no spyware and no viruses. EA has a lot to do to re-earn my trust after Bioshock, Spore, etc.
I still play their games from the 80s on my Commodore 64.
I think it's a common tendency for engineers to blame lack of engineering knowledge for bosses who suck at managing. That accounts for a lot of the complaining.
These aren't the kind of things you learn at business school. My friends at Wharton tell me it's mostly liquor tolerance;P
It works flawlessly. It is illegal to distribute or I'd offer you a copy, but you can pick it up on freenet quite quickly.
Wouldn't buying the linked Nike shoe be an implicit license to use the patent? Meaning you don't have to use it their way?
I'm pretty sure that a patent license doesn't work the same way as a EULA, and there are rather strict limits on what restrictions you can impose on licensees. But IANAL.
No I think that would be vendor lock in, gaming, inertia, and lower prices. But good guess.
But with shit like Vista, who knows?
A good manager has two options:
1) Listen to me (and others) and trust us, after we have shown ourselves to be trustworthy and competent.
2) Be smarter than me at whatever it is I do
I've worked with both kinds, but if they're pleasant, have manageable egos, and know what they know and what they don't everything goes smooth as clockwork. I've never had a bad boss.
I have no clue what a carburetor is. I don't care. Don't use cars much.
You shouldn't assume much at all is general knowledge; I know far too many linux fanbois at my school who think everyone somehow is born knowing how things like netboot, dhcp, and computer internals work. We tend to see the things we know as elementary and hte things others know as more difficult, or so it seems to me.
Agree agree agree. I've had a good time working at utterly incompetent workplaces because the bosses 2-3 levels up from me shielded me from the idiocy above me. They deserved their perks, believe me.