You're right, it's not the public's job to understand science. But neither is it the scientist's job to deal with the public. There needs to be intermediaries.
I worked for a company that did a huge order for POS machines. Prep work required opening and putting in some interface cards, and there were at least 3-4 different types for things that were theoretically the same model. Completely different motherboard layouts, so it wasn't minor changes like different HD models.
There's a problem with the after fees, but in the other way. If the PTO makes money off of calling something bad, why would they ever call something good?
What does readable have to do with it? Executes efficiently is what you want.
And what's interesting with this restriction is that this is how gcc, the native toolchain Apple uses works. It compiles to an intermediate language before it gets converted to assembly.
- Proprierary software: You dont get the source code, but nobody is restricting where or if you can install it, as long as its freeware or you have paid for it.
This DRM scheme is worse than shooting themselves in the foot, it's dropping a NUKE on their foot!
You're making an assumption that doesn't hold. This is dropping a nuke on their foot in the PC marketplace. That's not the only marketplace that Ubi is in. AC2 has been released on consoles, sold well, dropping in price just before the release of some new DLC. The AC2 that this affects hasn't even hit the market yet.\
It never will, it's theoretically impossible; you simultaneously trust the client with the code and don't trust the client with the code. There is one and only one form that is uncrackable - client sends up mouse / keyboard, server sends down screen updates. No other code involved on the client.
Nobody who ever downloaded a game ever crossed anything resembling DRM. It's been stripped clean before the game reaches them
Not true. There are some that use more subtle checks that corrupt the game, and yes, these have made it to the wild. GoG recently got bit by one of these, it wasn't properly removed by the publisher. I recall some other game (Spyro?) that couldn't be completed with a cracked build, it made some things unavailable.
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You're right, it's not the public's job to understand science. But neither is it the scientist's job to deal with the public. There needs to be intermediaries.
Cancelling the card doesn't hurt much, if at all
Ken Kutaragi, is that you?
Wargasm comes to mind (on install media). IIRC, that was around the same time as the Myth II installer debacle.
Korean MSDN was shipping malware too
I worked for a company that did a huge order for POS machines. Prep work required opening and putting in some interface cards, and there were at least 3-4 different types for things that were theoretically the same model. Completely different motherboard layouts, so it wasn't minor changes like different HD models.
There's a problem with the after fees, but in the other way. If the PTO makes money off of calling something bad, why would they ever call something good?
What does readable have to do with it? Executes efficiently is what you want.
And what's interesting with this restriction is that this is how gcc, the native toolchain Apple uses works. It compiles to an intermediate language before it gets converted to assembly.
Why should Apple second guess the user? If someone wants to install a battery hogging app, let them.
And good generated code can still beat a lot of human written code, so that's not a good argument.
I don't think the problem is "supporting all languages", the Objective-C / C++ / Javascript IMHO isn't action worthy.
The problem is that the code must ORIGINALLY be written in those languages, no tool generating the code allowed.
- Proprierary software: You dont get the source code, but nobody is restricting where or if you can install it, as long as its freeware or you have paid for it.
Ubisoft would like a word with you
It isn't malicious *now*.
How do you know it isn't going to turn so?
s/Ubisoft/Capcom/
If Sun patched this today, you can expect the patch for iStuff around Christmas or so, if that quickly.
They've been that slow before on exploited vulnerabilities, they'll be that slow again.
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less
Much easier to clean != goes away.
A bot is a bot, regardless of privilege. And it doesn't matter how easy it is to clean if the user isn't looking.
If they don't have root and the BIOS is password protected? I didn't know Linux was that insecure.
Sony has dabbled in a few download only titles for the PSP, with empty boxes with codes at various retailers.
Why didn't they do that here? It seems as if the backlash would be less.
Except PSP UMD games aren't installed. Put disk in. play.
This DRM scheme is worse than shooting themselves in the foot, it's dropping a NUKE on their foot!
You're making an assumption that doesn't hold. This is dropping a nuke on their foot in the PC marketplace. That's not the only marketplace that Ubi is in. AC2 has been released on consoles, sold well, dropping in price just before the release of some new DLC. The AC2 that this affects hasn't even hit the market yet.\
It never will, it's theoretically impossible; you simultaneously trust the client with the code and don't trust the client with the code. There is one and only one form that is uncrackable - client sends up mouse / keyboard, server sends down screen updates. No other code involved on the client.
Nobody who ever downloaded a game ever crossed anything resembling DRM. It's been stripped clean before the game reaches them
Not true. There are some that use more subtle checks that corrupt the game, and yes, these have made it to the wild. GoG recently got bit by one of these, it wasn't properly removed by the publisher. I recall some other game (Spyro?) that couldn't be completed with a cracked build, it made some things unavailable.
Given the sales of FFVII on PSN, I don't think I'm the exception.
From a practical point of view, I don't care about the guts. As long as it plays my games, I don't care if it's software or hardware.
If it's charge for multiplayer? meh, I'm single player only 90+% of the time
If it's charge for demos,Netflix or patches? DIAF Sony.
Gamefly like subscription to all the games on PSN? Count me in, if it's a reasonable price.
Given the number of foot / mouth moments Sony has had over the PS3, I doubt they're doing something like that.