Suppose you had to use another piece of art from the same period as the Mona Lisa to create your fake. Yes there would be another Mona Lisa to show off, but the piece you used would be destroyed forever.
You're skipping a step, the purchaser will most likely contact the seller before pursuing legal action. If they do, the seller will point out how they never said it was an artifact. This will make the seller far less likely to actually contact a lawyer and find out that it doesn't matter.
In other words, anything intended to protect the rights of the owners of the data is DRM. Some DRM is particularly bad, like SecureROM and some is less problematic, like CD keys. All of it, however, is DRM.
A broken watch is right twice a day, that does not make it a scientist.
I always hated that expression, a completely broken watch may be right twice a day, but a slightly slow one may only be actually right once a decade. Even so, I'd rather have the slightly slow one than the completely broken one.
Two of the worst glitches I've had to deal with (more due to the timing of them than anything else):
Atelier Iris: Immediately after beating the final boss the game will sometimes (about 50% of the time for me) go to a black screen and freeze. If you repeat the fight you may get past it so not as bad as:
FEAR 2 (PS3): Part way through the final fight the game missed a trigger for the rest of the fight, no amount of reloading fixed the problem.
That reminds me of the rules about nukes in Dune. In order to prevent their use against others there was a rule that anyone who uses nukes on other humans would have their entire planet nuked (by the spacing guild I think).
(Feel free to correct me if I've got the Dune rules incorrect. It's been a while.)
iirc the rule was that if you use your nukes against anyone else, the spacing guild cuts off access, leaving you stranded.
they stop people who don't know that first level. that might be a huge fraction, depending on the game audience. I'm not advocating just using CD keys. I personally think that some variant of Steam is preferred because it offers the most chance for authentication with the least intrusion. While not bad in theory, I feel compelled to say something in response. I bought Half-Life 2 when it first came out, Steam made me want to pirate it afterwards just so I could play without the hassle and resource consumption.
the decrypted problem specifies the sum of the digits in the numbers 1-1000000, not the numbers themselves, the answer is therefore 4999996
(45*111111+1)
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What's wrong with buying it in from Russia anyway? Are they really running so short?
Yes they are, we've been buying it from them for 15 or so years, they're starting to run out.
Suppose you had to use another piece of art from the same period as the Mona Lisa to create your fake. Yes there would be another Mona Lisa to show off, but the piece you used would be destroyed forever.
You're skipping a step, the purchaser will most likely contact the seller before pursuing legal action. If they do, the seller will point out how they never said it was an artifact. This will make the seller far less likely to actually contact a lawyer and find out that it doesn't matter.
Better to start complaining at the first signs of corruption than wait until it's too late to do anything about it.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
DRM = Digital Rights Management
In other words, anything intended to protect the rights of the owners of the data is DRM. Some DRM is particularly bad, like SecureROM and some is less problematic, like CD keys. All of it, however, is DRM.
A broken watch is right twice a day, that does not make it a scientist.
I always hated that expression, a completely broken watch may be right twice a day, but a slightly slow one may only be actually right once a decade. Even so, I'd rather have the slightly slow one than the completely broken one.
Two of the worst glitches I've had to deal with (more due to the timing of them than anything else):
Atelier Iris: Immediately after beating the final boss the game will sometimes (about 50% of the time for me) go to a black screen and freeze. If you repeat the fight you may get past it so not as bad as:
FEAR 2 (PS3): Part way through the final fight the game missed a trigger for the rest of the fight, no amount of reloading fixed the problem.
That reminds me of the rules about nukes in Dune. In order to prevent their use against others there was a rule that anyone who uses nukes on other humans would have their entire planet nuked (by the spacing guild I think).
(Feel free to correct me if I've got the Dune rules incorrect. It's been a while.)
iirc the rule was that if you use your nukes against anyone else, the spacing guild cuts off access, leaving you stranded.
"Do no evil" is an imperative, and suggests a code to follow
But that they have to think about it means they're struggling with it already.
I'd take that as a given, they are a company trying to make money after all.
However, like most DRM schemes, I'm sure a "hack" will be found soon. Perform the test yourself... and outsource it.
the decrypted problem specifies the sum of the digits in the numbers 1-1000000, not the numbers themselves, the answer is therefore 4999996
(45*111111+1)