The ratio of pirate copies vs bought copies may be obscured by platform.
Looking at past Humble Bundle stats (games _without_ DRM management) it shows that even though piracy is still as abundant, the same amount of people are still willing to pay. Even more interesting, though Windows buyers ouranked 75% of others, Linux users payed the most on average.... and that site link in TFA just went down.
Also that implementing and using encryption for personal use is more techy than the average being can handle. I'm hoping that https://silentcircle.com/ can approach this issue. Extra points for taking note of the founders...
Yup, those sugary and fatty foods provided sustenance for those periods when food was scarcer, when your body relies on fatty deposits.
Super markets eliminated the need to hunt for food interspersed with periods of shortages, but the latent craving for those sugary, fatty treats still remained.
For kids, sure. For the real world (TM), the only way to secure against an unknown attack vector, is to invent one. Hey, anything is possible with a contrived example.
I cannot fathom how, why or where-in-gods-green-earth such a large binary exists.
An average 50% CPU reduction is notable, yet the data encompassing that claim seems to be the exact same width, height and breadth of a White Elephant, a deployment nightmare, and a bandwidth raper, Frankensteined.
It is a grotesque salute to everything unjust, immoral and plainly fucked up in the coding world.
A monkey hitting keys at random on a keyboard for a finite amount of time will almost surely code a 10 Million LOC program, such as the complete works of Intuit.
Thanks for that little gem of folklore! Adding that to my library next to "The story of Mel":-)
I spent a few years writing integration systems between QB and in-house software. I gave it the benefit of the doubt at first. I won't ever get those years back.
After aeons of debugging against their "API", and "UI", battling with their licensing and development "support" dept's, submitting bug reports (resulting in delaying their releases), I have concluded: Their code base is rubbish. It's flaky at best, likely contains yarns of spaghetti and unused cruft, is highly flammable and is likely to cause hemorrhaging if swallowed.
Pointing out my OP did not refer to the "Indie game makers" aspect within the HIB, but specifically to the DRM-Free aspect. I just used HIB as a measuring stick, as I believe a great portion of the game buyers believed in the principal of DRM-Free content.
An open gaming platform exists; it's called the PC. PCs can use USB game controllers or wireless game controllers with a USB dongle. Please convince me of why an open gaming platform marketed for connection to a television is needed.
It may be a fallacy to assume everybody will be carting their consoles wherever they go, yet I agree that PC's are the best choice for most of us here. Well said, Sir
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A pity they drew the "gamers" slip and not "tech support clients" when they drew from the "target audience" hat.
The ratio of pirate copies vs bought copies may be obscured by platform.
Looking at past Humble Bundle stats (games _without_ DRM management) it shows that even though piracy is still as abundant, the same amount of people are still willing to pay. Even more interesting, though Windows buyers ouranked 75% of others, Linux users payed the most on average. ... and that site link in TFA just went down.
Also that implementing and using encryption for personal use is more techy than the average being can handle. I'm hoping that https://silentcircle.com/ can approach this issue. Extra points for taking note of the founders...
Yup, those sugary and fatty foods provided sustenance for those periods when food was scarcer, when your body relies on fatty deposits.
Super markets eliminated the need to hunt for food interspersed with periods of shortages, but the latent craving for those sugary, fatty treats still remained.
Indeed, they might not care at all, but they act like they may give an iota of a crap.
The debacle with Google collecting Publicly Open Unencrypted WiFi Communications was controversial, and even intentional *gasp*, yet:
But, the commission said, Google did not engage in illegal wiretapping because the data was flowing, unencrypted, over open radio waves.
I concede this means little regarding moral privacy, I mean they did it anyway, right?!
It was a wake-up call to people who are too ignorant or lazy to secure their networks. People need to learn, good for Them!
It falls in line with a campaign to raise awareness about what information you put out there.
This is bound to happen. The question is:
Would you prefer Google to patent this, or someone like Apple?
Personally I would trust Google to consider user rights a little bit more, but the exploitation of such a system is damn scary.
TFA tells us the technology will not be targeted towards PC's, but for RAID controllers.
I guess it could help against data loss in critical systems, combined with disk caching it can offer nice responsive write times.
Assuming the drinker in question limits their intake by units, this is true.
But most people limit their intake by a time based function: let's have another while we are here!
[units] = [time] * [consumption]
The full text of the research online here.
For kids, sure. For the real world (TM), the only way to secure against an unknown attack vector, is to invent one. Hey, anything is possible with a contrived example.
While Microsoft locks into contracts with educational institutions it's a nice change to see this sort of thing happening.
Now hand in your sarcasm badge, Sir!
An old idea in action is refreshingly inspirational. It humbly reminds us that newer is not always better, it's what you make of it that counts.
A 1.5GB binary? That obviously includes the OS.
Seriously now:
I cannot fathom how, why or where-in-gods-green-earth such a large binary exists.
An average 50% CPU reduction is notable, yet the data encompassing that claim seems to be the exact same width, height and breadth of a White Elephant, a deployment nightmare, and a bandwidth raper, Frankensteined.
It is a grotesque salute to everything unjust, immoral and plainly fucked up in the coding world.
If you know enough basic coding paradigms like variables, loops, functions and the like, then you can just Dive Into Python.
The page says it's for experienced programmers, but it's a simple indemnity that translates into "common sense about basic coding paradigms"
A monkey hitting keys at random on a keyboard for a finite amount of time will almost surely code a 10 Million LOC program, such as the complete works of Intuit.
* adaptation of the Infinite monkey theorem
Thanks for that little gem of folklore! Adding that to my library next to "The story of Mel" :-)
I spent a few years writing integration systems between QB and in-house software. I gave it the benefit of the doubt at first. I won't ever get those years back.
After aeons of debugging against their "API", and "UI", battling with their licensing and development "support" dept's, submitting bug reports (resulting in delaying their releases), I have concluded: Their code base is rubbish. It's flaky at best, likely contains yarns of spaghetti and unused cruft, is highly flammable and is likely to cause hemorrhaging if swallowed.
Surfer is eaten alive by sentient algae blob. Story at 11!
This is genius! Want to team up and cash in selling snowcones in support of project "iceage"? :)
Its no worse an idea than say ocean trawling or deep sea oil drilling.
The real shame is the decline of the adventure genre, which derived from interactive fiction, which was all about story.
A great genre that engages your imagination. These modern games in question are obviously not inspired by the art of storytelling.
Its more like boilerplate text they use to glue cutscenes.
Pointing out my OP did not refer to the "Indie game makers" aspect within the HIB, but specifically to the DRM-Free aspect. I just used HIB as a measuring stick, as I believe a great portion of the game buyers believed in the principal of DRM-Free content.
An open gaming platform exists; it's called the PC. PCs can use USB game controllers or wireless game controllers with a USB dongle. Please convince me of why an open gaming platform marketed for connection to a television is needed.
It may be a fallacy to assume everybody will be carting their consoles wherever they go, yet I agree that PC's are the best choice for most of us here. Well said, Sir
Would that include the cheap knock-off Golden China consoles?
These skeptics can't string two original thoughts together: fuss-potting on the DRM aspect, which is clearly not the main focus of this new console!
Time to wake up, The Humble Bundle statistics prove that DRM-free games are indeed wanted.
Similarly, and open gaming platform is much needed. The corporates are just afraid of losing their fatty grips.
MC: Somebody call the medics, the crowd is on fire!
Hendrix: Hang on, I got this . . .
Cue Purple Haze