Well, in that case the Linux desktop will be pretty successful, considering the amount of people, me included, that just wouldn't accept a cloud-based OS with a touch interface.
Or even from iTunes Music Store. They haven't had DRM on their music since march 2009.
I buy all my music from eMusic. It's a subscription based service and they sell you music from all but the biggest labels for about half the price of iTunes's. All music is in high quality MP3's and once you bought them, you can download them again and again on any number of computers.
So he basically had to keep Apples versions thereof open.
In the case of GCC, yes, but they could have kept WebKit, Darwin, LLVM, OpenSSH/SSL and lots of other source modifications to themselves if they wanted to.
Later PS3's only ship with two usb ports, and the wireless adapters for the instruments that come with games like Guitar Hero, has hubs in them so that you can daisychain them for up to four(?) instruments. I'll guess they will make a lot of people (and game publishers) angry if they take that functionality away.
My guess is that they will just fix the heap overflow vulnerability in the next update and then start the detect/ban race that usually happens.
I can't say that I have noticed many Sony fans or even Sony apologists. So either they choose not to speak up or there are a lot of people who prioritize games over good character or good sense.
I like their TV's and the PS3, but I'm not exactly a fanboy. I don't think their business practices are much different than any of the giants'. I thought the rootkit scandal was embarrasing, but I don't get why MS got out of that mess so easily, while Sony became marked for life. I tried to question an anti-sony rant here one time before, but got modded to hell (even though it turned out I was right), so at least I am very careful when trying to defend Sony.
NTFS-3G has had read/write support since at least 2006, and if ext2fsx is bad, try the Fuse version. It shouldn't be harder than to double click a couple of.pkgs!:-)
The question I have is why cant my stupid MacBook read NTFS? Or at least ext3? What kind of a jackass sells an OS designed to be unable to share data with other OS's?
I have a few of these APC SurgeArrest to protect my equipment at home, and they are supposed to protect against lightning. They even offer a "Equipment Protection Policy guarantee" where they are supposed to compensate for any hardware destroyed by a surge, even though I haven't read the fine print on that one...
You could just make two.reg files, enable_fix.reg and disable_fix.reg, one which adds the relevant DWORD and one that removes it.
Now you can just double-click the appropriate.reg file to enable/disable the fix, and hope that regedit.exe itself is not vulnerable to this type of attack...
the recent push to "crack" the PS3 OS was due to the removal of that function, which Sony did to try to prevent the cracking of their OS. Oh, the circular eddies of irony that feed our world:D
There was no "recent push" to crack the PS3. It has been a constant effort since the day of release 4 years ago. The reason Sony removed OtherOS was because of the first newsworthy breakthrough, even though it would have been highly unlikely that they would have succeeded that way.
You don't need a closed platform to deal with wallhackers and aimbots.
Steam is not a closed platform? What bothers me more with steam than a console is that it has the privilege to mess with everything on my computer, even though it is not even remotely related to gaming.
Yes! This is what matters. Make sure your product is worth buying, and make it easy to try out for free.
We are members of IMSTA, which I think has a good policy towards piracy.
By word of mouth, do you mean the number of p2p sites your cracked software is distributed on? Thus, the more p2p. The more popular?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but people using our software are musicians, and they tend to collaborate with other musicians and talk about what tools they use, both online and offline.
Actually, I don't know why someone hasn't started putting in kill switch's in their software. If someone rips it off, and the developer finds out, the program deletes it self(was going to say delete critical windows file).
Because you will not turn these guys into paying customers, but you will spend time developing said switch, and make people talk bad about your brand as a bonus?
BTW, we are "indies". Completely owned by the founders, without external investors.
You are a slave to these people. And it's easy to see how. If people are going to pirate and not pay, your company is going to drop the product and you will no longer be paid. You will end up out of a job. So you are a slave to these people that feel your work is not worthy of payment, just worthy of them using it.
Well, no, I'm actually more of a slave to my employer and my paying customers. The pirates have no say in what I do. They are not our customers! We have an estimated 80% piracy rate on our top selling product. We know by experience that only a few of those pirates would buy the product if they were unable to copy it. It would be extremely naive to think that we could get even half of the pirates to buy it. And even though it feels weird, we would not be as big without the pirates spreading our name and brand to new potentially buying customers.
We try to encourage people to buy the software they use by offering extra content, a great community, and other stuff for registered users. This works quite well! People will in the end pay what they think it is worth.
I work as a software developer, and I do not consider myself a slave to those who pirate the software I develop. I don't think people pirating our software are thieves.
Why? Some people are cheap and some are just poor. If they like what we do but don't want or can pay for it, go ahead, use it anyway. If they like it, they might tell someone about it who is ready to pay for it. If they don't like it, then we should probably make a better product.
I get paid regardless, for my actual hours spent doing what I do!
If no one bought our software, but pirated it instead, our company would go bankrupt and I would have to look for another job. But no matter how you look at it, it is not slavery. It is the market telling us that it is not prepared to pay for what we do. Would it be sad? Probably, but I don't find that it is my right to get paid for whatever i choose to spend my life on doing. I would probably continue developing just for fun on my spare time.
I admit it is really scary that the average user just want computers and gadets that works together well without the need to have any technical knowledege at all
This is not scary. This is how computers were supposed to work all along! The fact that there are so many computer geeks is a biproduct of the usability failure of the computer industry.
I am trying to say that, probably, if you as an advertiser are trying to get people who have discretionary income to burn to see your ads, you'd be much smarter to put your ad in front of someone who just bought an iPad than some random person you know nothing about.
But how can they possibly make an advertisment that catches the interest of the consumer without using flash? They didn't think about that now, did they?
Since all Swedish internet traffic that crosses our borders is nowadays monitored by FRA (roughly NSA to you Americans), this could give companies an option to route traffic from Sweden directly to Swedish servers, without needing a redirect from the foreign servers. Of course, FRA could still see the request from the local DNS to the authorative DNS, but assuming this traffic is encrypted, it would make the FRA law look increasingly stupid and ineffective.
The page could include a message which tells them to call their ISP support for further assistance, on the telephone number found on the latest bill...
I remember buying the three first chapters to support the idéa. I didn't read them though, since it didn't feel comfortable to read a pdf book on my monitor at that time, and if I printed them I might as well have bought the book instead.
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Well, in that case the Linux desktop will be pretty successful, considering the amount of people, me included, that just wouldn't accept a cloud-based OS with a touch interface.
Or even from iTunes Music Store. They haven't had DRM on their music since march 2009.
I buy all my music from eMusic. It's a subscription based service and they sell you music from all but the biggest labels for about half the price of iTunes's.
All music is in high quality MP3's and once you bought them, you can download them again and again on any number of computers.
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They have already worked (and continue to work) together in bringing Remote Play to some phones, so I don't think it would be impossible.
So he basically had to keep Apples versions thereof open.
In the case of GCC, yes, but they could have kept WebKit, Darwin, LLVM, OpenSSH/SSL and lots of other source modifications to themselves if they wanted to.
Actually, it has both.
That's not iPods. They are called "ninja flash bombs".
Later PS3's only ship with two usb ports, and the wireless adapters for the instruments that come with games like Guitar Hero, has hubs in them so that you can daisychain them for up to four(?) instruments.
I'll guess they will make a lot of people (and game publishers) angry if they take that functionality away.
My guess is that they will just fix the heap overflow vulnerability in the next update and then start the detect/ban race that usually happens.
I can't say that I have noticed many Sony fans or even Sony apologists. So either they choose not to speak up or there are a lot of people who prioritize games over good character or good sense.
I like their TV's and the PS3, but I'm not exactly a fanboy. I don't think their business practices are much different than any of the giants'. I thought the rootkit scandal was embarrasing, but I don't get why MS got out of that mess so easily, while Sony became marked for life.
I tried to question an anti-sony rant here one time before, but got modded to hell (even though it turned out I was right), so at least I am very careful when trying to defend Sony.
Especially with your fingertips cut off.
NTFS-3G has had read/write support since at least 2006, and if ext2fsx is bad, try the Fuse version. It shouldn't be harder than to double click a couple of .pkgs! :-)
The question I have is why cant my stupid MacBook read NTFS? Or at least ext3? What kind of a jackass sells an OS designed to be unable to share data with other OS's?
ext2/ext3 support here, and NTFS support here!
I have a few of these APC SurgeArrest to protect my equipment at home, and they are supposed to protect against lightning. They even offer a "Equipment Protection Policy guarantee" where they are supposed to compensate for any hardware destroyed by a surge, even though I haven't read the fine print on that one...
You could just make two .reg files, enable_fix.reg and disable_fix.reg, one which adds the relevant DWORD and one that removes it.
Now you can just double-click the appropriate .reg file to enable/disable the fix, and hope that regedit.exe itself is not vulnerable to this type of attack...
the recent push to "crack" the PS3 OS was due to the removal of that function, which Sony did to try to prevent the cracking of their OS. Oh, the circular eddies of irony that feed our world :D
There was no "recent push" to crack the PS3. It has been a constant effort since the day of release 4 years ago. The reason Sony removed OtherOS was because of the first newsworthy breakthrough, even though it would have been highly unlikely that they would have succeeded that way.
You don't need a closed platform to deal with wallhackers and aimbots.
Steam is not a closed platform? What bothers me more with steam than a console is that it has the privilege to mess with everything on my computer, even though it is not even remotely related to gaming.
I guess it depends on the volume of the sales.
Yes! This is what matters. Make sure your product is worth buying, and make it easy to try out for free.
We are members of IMSTA, which I think has a good policy towards piracy.
By word of mouth, do you mean the number of p2p sites your cracked software is distributed on? Thus, the more p2p. The more popular?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but people using our software are musicians, and they tend to collaborate with other musicians and talk about what tools they use, both online and offline.
Actually, I don't know why someone hasn't started putting in kill switch's in their software. If someone rips it off, and the developer finds out, the program deletes it self(was going to say delete critical windows file).
Because you will not turn these guys into paying customers, but you will spend time developing said switch, and make people talk bad about your brand as a bonus?
BTW, we are "indies". Completely owned by the founders, without external investors.
You are a slave to these people. And it's easy to see how. If people are going to pirate and not pay, your company is going to drop the product and you will no longer be paid. You will end up out of a job. So you are a slave to these people that feel your work is not worthy of payment, just worthy of them using it.
Well, no, I'm actually more of a slave to my employer and my paying customers. The pirates have no say in what I do. They are not our customers! We have an estimated 80% piracy rate on our top selling product. We know by experience that only a few of those pirates would buy the product if they were unable to copy it. It would be extremely naive to think that we could get even half of the pirates to buy it. And even though it feels weird, we would not be as big without the pirates spreading our name and brand to new potentially buying customers.
We try to encourage people to buy the software they use by offering extra content, a great community, and other stuff for registered users. This works quite well! People will in the end pay what they think it is worth.
I work as a software developer, and I do not consider myself a slave to those who pirate the software I develop.
I don't think people pirating our software are thieves.
Why?
Some people are cheap and some are just poor. If they like what we do but don't want or can pay for it, go ahead, use it anyway. If they like it, they might tell someone about it who is ready to pay for it. If they don't like it, then we should probably make a better product.
I get paid regardless, for my actual hours spent doing what I do!
If no one bought our software, but pirated it instead, our company would go bankrupt and I would have to look for another job. But no matter how you look at it, it is not slavery. It is the market telling us that it is not prepared to pay for what we do. Would it be sad? Probably, but I don't find that it is my right to get paid for whatever i choose to spend my life on doing. I would probably continue developing just for fun on my spare time.
Bondage Midgets in Space(TM)? I like your way of thinking...
I admit it is really scary that the average user just want computers and gadets that works together well without the need to have any technical knowledege at all
This is not scary. This is how computers were supposed to work all along! The fact that there are so many computer geeks is a biproduct of the usability failure of the computer industry.
I am trying to say that, probably, if you as an advertiser are trying to get people who have discretionary income to burn to see your ads, you'd be much smarter to put your ad in front of someone who just bought an iPad than some random person you know nothing about.
But how can they possibly make an advertisment that catches the interest of the consumer without using flash? They didn't think about that now, did they?
Since all Swedish internet traffic that crosses our borders is nowadays monitored by FRA (roughly NSA to you Americans), this could give companies an option to route traffic from Sweden directly to Swedish servers, without needing a redirect from the foreign servers. Of course, FRA could still see the request from the local DNS to the authorative DNS, but assuming this traffic is encrypted, it would make the FRA law look increasingly stupid and ineffective.
The page could include a message which tells them to call their ISP support for further assistance, on the telephone number found on the latest bill...
I remember buying the three first chapters to support the idéa. I didn't read them though, since it didn't feel comfortable to read a pdf book on my monitor at that time, and if I printed them I might as well have bought the book instead.