I still think that the fundamental problem lies in the fact that piracy occurs in the first place.
No one is disputing that, and you're certainly correct. However, people who paid $60 for this game (who also HAVE to pay for a net connection (not sure if broadband is a requirement?) in order to play the game) cannot play, and those who pirated the game are paying right now, unrestricted. Hence, DRM is a failure of epic proportions, simply because this kind of thing happens. It's happened before, it's happening now, and it will happen again in the future. I'll never buy from Ubi, that's for sure.
If any mobile phone manufacturer buys Palm, you can kiss everything goodbye except the patent portfolio. Toss webOS up on the shelf with BeOS and OS/2, in the archive of great OSes screwed up by everything else around them.
I've never had a problem with the Emulator. Just press ESC for the back gesture. Would be nice if you could test the other physical buttons (some are emulated) and gestures, though.
Besides, you should always be testing on actual hardware as well as the emulator;-)
Android is a distant, fractured third place to webOS and iPhone OS. Palm's hardware sucked and Apple likes to make money, now that they've figured out how, but it doesn't make Android any less crappy. Deal.
So because many people will go along with something and will not oppose it on principle, and therefore precedent for it exists, that automatically means it's not exploitative and is not an instance of double-dipping?
You know, there was another something that people went along with and didn't oppose it on principal until it was too late.
The remote control would be, you guessed-it, an "dumbed down" iPhone.
More likely, it would just be an app for your iPhone or iPad. In fact, they already have this; I'm not sure why the AppleTV isn't more popular, but I get the feeling it has something to do with not offering any advantages over just using your exsiting Macbook Pro with the "Front Row" application and buying a much cheaper a Mini-DisplayPort -> HDMI adapter. Look for AppleTV to become more than a hard drive running a version of Front Row with the iTunes store built in.
When you first got into computing and technology did you learn more from the gear that you had to fiddle with or the gear that "just worked"?
Funny story, I learned way more from the gear that "just worked", because I had to learn more about it to fiddle with it. It's a bit of a different ball game these days, but back then it was basically DOS vs. hex editors, INI files vs. ResEdit. I credit the Mac platform with bringing me much closer to the hardware much more quickly, if you can believe it.
Of all the carriers I've had (and I've had all the big ones), I've liked Sprint the best. I always have service, I never get screwed on my bill for no reason, the network seems as fast (or usually faster) and AT&T and Verizon. Why does everyone seem to hate them so much?
If you want the internet to remain free, you'll have to get off your lazy ass. Start by going and downloading the skipfish source - it's under an Apache license - and audit it for us. Tell us if it's got any phone-home reporting, if it leaves out any major items from it's scans, etc.
We all know we should question everything, including Google's intentions. We're pretty smart, we get that. Instead of offering blind, childish rhetoric, you could offer proof and/or solutions. Just sayin'; calling Google a major privacy invader doesn't stop them.
Considering how many web apps use Google APIs in some form or another these days, I'd say it's in their best interests to ensure those sites don't all become a liability to eachother by way of their centralized cloud.
Most people don't even seem to read what's on Slashdot now, so we figured since everyone only ever skims the/. summary that it would be the best thing to link to. I hear the next version of Slashcode will only allow 140 character summaries.
Nowhere does the article mention attempts by the company to understand why the iPhone is more attractive to much of Microsoft's tech-savvy workforce than the company's own products.
Most likely, that's because Microsoft doesn't make a phone.
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and those who pirated the game are paying right now, unrestricted
*playing right now. Obviously, those with pirated copies haven't paid, why that's the whole point...
I still think that the fundamental problem lies in the fact that piracy occurs in the first place.
No one is disputing that, and you're certainly correct. However, people who paid $60 for this game (who also HAVE to pay for a net connection (not sure if broadband is a requirement?) in order to play the game) cannot play, and those who pirated the game are paying right now, unrestricted. Hence, DRM is a failure of epic proportions, simply because this kind of thing happens. It's happened before, it's happening now, and it will happen again in the future. I'll never buy from Ubi, that's for sure.
If any mobile phone manufacturer buys Palm, you can kiss everything goodbye except the patent portfolio. Toss webOS up on the shelf with BeOS and OS/2, in the archive of great OSes screwed up by everything else around them.
Put the 800mhz patch on your Pre and tell me how sluggish it feels then. webOS is not the problem, the Pre is the problem.
I've never had a problem with the Emulator. Just press ESC for the back gesture. Would be nice if you could test the other physical buttons (some are emulated) and gestures, though.
Besides, you should always be testing on actual hardware as well as the emulator ;-)
WebOS and Android are the same OS
Um....Linux? That's like saying NetBSD and Mac OS X are the same OS - very similar at the core, API/GUI layers are 100% different.
Because charging *less* would cut into their hooker and blow money. Duh.
I've been saying it for years, but legalizing hookers and blow would solve all our problems.
Also, Dude..."Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
Android is a distant, fractured third place to webOS and iPhone OS. Palm's hardware sucked and Apple likes to make money, now that they've figured out how, but it doesn't make Android any less crappy. Deal.
So because many people will go along with something and will not oppose it on principle, and therefore precedent for it exists, that automatically means it's not exploitative and is not an instance of double-dipping?
You know, there was another something that people went along with and didn't oppose it on principal until it was too late.
The remote control would be, you guessed-it, an "dumbed down" iPhone.
More likely, it would just be an app for your iPhone or iPad. In fact, they already have this; I'm not sure why the AppleTV isn't more popular, but I get the feeling it has something to do with not offering any advantages over just using your exsiting Macbook Pro with the "Front Row" application and buying a much cheaper a Mini-DisplayPort -> HDMI adapter. Look for AppleTV to become more than a hard drive running a version of Front Row with the iTunes store built in.
When you first got into computing and technology did you learn more from the gear that you had to fiddle with or the gear that "just worked"?
Funny story, I learned way more from the gear that "just worked", because I had to learn more about it to fiddle with it. It's a bit of a different ball game these days, but back then it was basically DOS vs. hex editors, INI files vs. ResEdit. I credit the Mac platform with bringing me much closer to the hardware much more quickly, if you can believe it.
Of all the carriers I've had (and I've had all the big ones), I've liked Sprint the best. I always have service, I never get screwed on my bill for no reason, the network seems as fast (or usually faster) and AT&T and Verizon. Why does everyone seem to hate them so much?
as long as the argument isn't that "fought by proxy in expendable countries" is an acceptable solution, I agree with your statement.
If Flash dies tomorrow we will just make great HTML 5 authoring tools instead.
Or...*shudder* an Adobe BROWSER!
Flash dies once SVG gets a frame-by-frame editor.
There, I fixed it.
If you want the internet to remain free, you'll have to get off your lazy ass. Start by going and downloading the skipfish source - it's under an Apache license - and audit it for us. Tell us if it's got any phone-home reporting, if it leaves out any major items from it's scans, etc.
We all know we should question everything, including Google's intentions. We're pretty smart, we get that. Instead of offering blind, childish rhetoric, you could offer proof and/or solutions. Just sayin'; calling Google a major privacy invader doesn't stop them.
Considering how many web apps use Google APIs in some form or another these days, I'd say it's in their best interests to ensure those sites don't all become a liability to eachother by way of their centralized cloud.
I don't want to read last year's Slashdot dupe.
Most people don't even seem to read what's on Slashdot now, so we figured since everyone only ever skims the /. summary that it would be the best thing to link to. I hear the next version of Slashcode will only allow 140 character summaries.
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In what world do you live where rich asian chicks aren't hot?
Womynists everywhere already oppose this research, and are organizing chants of "This PNAS party's got to go, hey hey, ho ho!"
Nowhere does the article mention attempts by the company to understand why the iPhone is more attractive to much of Microsoft's tech-savvy workforce than the company's own products.
Most likely, that's because Microsoft doesn't make a phone.
That also prevents cheaters.
Just use < and it'll show up correctly. <3 HTML Entities