Here's six wildly popular games that were vastly improved by massive modding opportunities.
But that wasn't their claim. Their claim was that "A lot of great PC games were even more successful than they otherwise might have been because they opened themselves up to the mod community".
Unless they had it disabled the Red Hat systems they used would have had SELinux enabled by default so if their linux systems really were a sieve then that doesn't speak to highly of SELinux and the NSA.
Anyone who imagines this is a way to bankrupt a company, as opposed to just giving them money, is as dumb as this idea is.
How is it giving them money when the transaction ends up being a net loss for the receiver when the processing fees are applied? To top that off they also want people to ask for the payment to be reversed which also adds further processing fees on the company receiving the money.
That was supposed to be "they lose money on each transaction". Also after they've lost money on each transaction they want the people to demand the money back which adds further processing fees on top of what they've already lost. Basically you get 30 million people doing this and they end up losing more money than the fine is.
Come again? Anyone who wants to "punish" me by sending me 13 cents, by all means feel free.
If 30 million people each pay one Sek, how does that not pay the fine? And does Sweden not have some sort of teeth to their court-imposed penalties whereby simply not paying means people go to jail?
There are these things called processing fees. The point is to send them an amount that is less than the amount it takes the process the incoming amounts and as such they use money on each transaction. This is pretty standard for services like Paypal or other internet money transfers.
Welcome to slashdot. ACs have been first posting and crapflooding for years now it is hardly something that has only been happening "lately". Unless by "lately" you mean for over a decade.
Except that Oracle hasn't yet finalized the purchase of Sun and Oracle doesn't host the site. Finally, even disregarding all that, it still isn't irony.
Come on, who ever complained about Microsoft "stealing" any of the existing languages supportted by.Net? That was not true for Eiffel or managed C++ or IronPython, or... you get the point.
Actually there have been many criticisms of IronPython and Managed C++ in the usual "embrace, extend" whining on this site and on other tech sites.
So using an existing concurrent language would make a lot of sense and annoy no-one.
Bullshit. People would whine no matter what because it's Microsoft.
Actually yes there are problems with the OOo file menu. The menus are almost always over packed with options and many things are placed in non-intuitive places.
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There was that 3d filesystem navigator that was used in the Jurassic Park movie.
They have no intention of making another Chrono sequel.
So what? That doesn't allow someone to take their non-free assets and do with it as they please.
The ROM hacking community is nearly all diehard fans. Pissing them off does not sound like a good way to do business.
And the ROM hacking community probably makes up a hugely small fraction of game buyers so I really doubt Square Enix could even care less.
This decision will certainly make me think twice before buying a Square-Enix game new.
I'm sure they are quaking in their boots over that.
Here's six wildly popular games that were vastly improved by massive modding opportunities.
But that wasn't their claim. Their claim was that "A lot of great PC games were even more successful than they otherwise might have been because they opened themselves up to the mod community".
A lot of great PC games were even more successful than they otherwise might have been because they opened themselves up to the mod community.
A lot is a huge stretch. I doubt you can name more than a half dozen.
Yes, because you aren't allowed to use someone else's non-free assets without their permission.
You know I'd take your condescending tone more seriously if you didn't have spelling and grammar mistakes all throughout your post.
Unless they had it disabled the Red Hat systems they used would have had SELinux enabled by default so if their linux systems really were a sieve then that doesn't speak to highly of SELinux and the NSA.
Whoosh!
Linus may be adamant, but the Linux kernel has plenty of its own shitty code inside of it.
Ah yes because the Chinese government has a long history of being trustworthy and never lying to it's citizens or attempting to rewrite history.
The programmers that contribute to OS projects are pretty adamant about good code, something Microsoft will learn one day.
And yet in practice this statement doesn't hold up because there is plenty of shit code floating around in open source projects.
Except as the story says this wasn't even the worse they could do. They tamed down their attacks to the level of the undergraduates.
The bank is the one who would levvy this alleged 2 SEK fee, yet they have absolutely nothing to gain from playing along with this dumb game.
They have a 2 SEK per transaction fee to gran by playing along.
He wasn't just a member he was on the board of directors of one of the copyright lobby groups.
I thought maybe I could help it be a little funnier with a juxtaposition.
And you failed miserably. Good job!
Anyone who imagines this is a way to bankrupt a company, as opposed to just giving them money, is as dumb as this idea is.
How is it giving them money when the transaction ends up being a net loss for the receiver when the processing fees are applied? To top that off they also want people to ask for the payment to be reversed which also adds further processing fees on the company receiving the money.
That was supposed to be "they lose money on each transaction". Also after they've lost money on each transaction they want the people to demand the money back which adds further processing fees on top of what they've already lost. Basically you get 30 million people doing this and they end up losing more money than the fine is.
Come again? Anyone who wants to "punish" me by sending me 13 cents, by all means feel free.
If 30 million people each pay one Sek, how does that not pay the fine? And does Sweden not have some sort of teeth to their court-imposed penalties whereby simply not paying means people go to jail?
There are these things called processing fees. The point is to send them an amount that is less than the amount it takes the process the incoming amounts and as such they use money on each transaction. This is pretty standard for services like Paypal or other internet money transfers.
Welcome to slashdot. ACs have been first posting and crapflooding for years now it is hardly something that has only been happening "lately". Unless by "lately" you mean for over a decade.
The only thing you did was to completely miss the GP's joke.
Except that Oracle hasn't yet finalized the purchase of Sun and Oracle doesn't host the site. Finally, even disregarding all that, it still isn't irony.
By "file menu" i meant the entire menu toolbar not specifically only the file menu. My bad.
Come on, who ever complained about Microsoft "stealing" any of the existing languages supportted by .Net? That was not true for Eiffel or managed C++ or IronPython, or... you get the point.
Actually there have been many criticisms of IronPython and Managed C++ in the usual "embrace, extend" whining on this site and on other tech sites.
So using an existing concurrent language would make a lot of sense and annoy no-one.
Bullshit. People would whine no matter what because it's Microsoft.
Actually yes there are problems with the OOo file menu. The menus are almost always over packed with options and many things are placed in non-intuitive places.
Isn't this kind of ironic, Oracle?
Since Oracle doesn't host the site there is no "irony" in this situation.