The point the author of the article is trying to make is that by the time the crack or circumvention comes out, Ubisoft will have made the vast majority of the money they planned to make on the title. Strange enough, they aren't requiring an Xbox Live connection for the 360 version. I guess they only think Windows users are dirty thieves.
That's a new phenomenon (as in the last 20 years). Please research sampling so you know what you're talking about. Samples are now required to be licensed. You can give as much credit as you want, that still doesn't mean it's not copyright infringement unless you pay for the sample.
Not everyone wants to search Google, check all those pages, try to set it up and fail, search Google for a solution, tweak the settings, find out the card you are using is incompatible...
We get that you are a geek and love to use Google but some people like to ask knowledgeable people a question and get an informed and CONCISE answer. If it irritated you so much to answer the question, maybe you just should not have answered it.
The reality is that most people do not live in New York, no one walks in LA, and Chicago is not really an intensely pedestrian city, either. DC may be an issue but there are only specific thoroughfares that people walk and they are not that crowded.
New York is not the United States. That is a VERY hard thing for New Yorkers to understand. In the end, it doesn't matter that in one city the pedestrian traffic is bad enough that using a cell phone makes people unaware of their surroundings because that city is New York. YOU try telling a New Yorker to put down their cell phone.
Haiku is not multi-user and in this day and age of malware, that's absolutely essential. Furthermore, I have a lot of other gripes about the current version of Haiku. Haiku is kind of like what if Classic Mac OS had melded A/UX into itself. Haiku suffers from many of the same issues Mac OS Classic had and just happens to have a few benefits from a Unix-like design.
I would rather have seen the Haiku interface developers work on Haiku as a desktop environment for Linux.
F-Spot is not very good. It's actually less usable than iPhoto 1.0 and if you are using RAW (which even consumer cameras use now) it lets you download the RAW image from the camera and SEEM to edit the RAW image but won't let you save it, and it does not tell you that you need to install UFRaw for that, and UFRaw is not listed as a dependency, which it should be. Typical typical Linux bullshit.
Digikam is a much better application but it is dependent on all kinds of KDE garbage (like Konqueror) to run and I use Gnome and don't AT ALL like the look of KDE.
I've always wondered why one of the camera manufacturers hasn't gotten behind Gimp instead of writing their own buggy photo editing/raw conversion tools.
Because RAW conversion is still a proprietary ordeal in general, which is why open source RAW converters are not so great. Adobe's DNG format is actually a pretty good idea but almost no cameras support it natively.
Windows 7 did not have drivers for a common Texas Instrument FlashMedia drive, does not have a basic Synaptics touchpad (or just a touchpad HID) driver so I could turn off tapping, did not install a driver form my Nvidia 8400M GT and when I put my VAIO to sleep the brightness controls no longer work.
This is an almost 2 year old laptop without any exotic hardware. I am thankful that Vista drivers work but Windows 7 is hardly the new Mac OS.
The iPhone (and iPod Touch) seemed to have a significant number of third-party apps already available at launch
Uh, launch WHERE? You've got some strange selective memory. It was over a year after the iPhone was released and just short of a year after the iPod Touch was released that third-party applications existed without hacking your device. I say we look at the time period. The G1 is not even a year old yet and it has an exponentially higher amount of third-party applications in that time than Apple had on their devices in the same period.
Opera's potential market right now is the same as Netscape's could have been had they not pretended that the internet was Windows. Opera needs to port their little browser to everything that is not a PC. They need to make Opera available for every SmartPhone, every game system, every toaster. They need to pretend Windows doesn't exist the same way Microsoft pretends nothing BUT Windows exists. The issue is if Opera doesn't get on this, WebKit is going to make them irrelevant.
Cell phones for at least the last five years have been required to have GPS in them for the purpose of 911. You're actually more likely to be found with a cell phone than a house phone because they'll know where in the house you are from your GPS location.
you can't use Google Docs on Android. I have a G1 and I'm pretty irked about that. All Google says is that they plan on it working on Android but give no timeline or whether it will be a native app or through Chrome Lite. They say the same vague statement about PDF.
Well, after seeing this is I can understand their terms of service. You can't have a linear thought process to understand why they have the terms they do.
They're trying to corner the market on the semantic web. It's not the results that are technically all that interesting, it's how you can use those results that makes it worth money.
Google is for all intents and purposes a catalogue. It doesn't return any data (and as time has gone on returns fewer relevant search results).
W/A is returning data about data. This is where the internet gets interesting and they are trying to say they own the results they give you, which is not true but they do own the right to keep you from using those results without paying them a royalty on their service if they choose. Lexis Nexis does the same thing, basically.
In Feb 2006 David Perry (the sexy bitch behind MDK and Messiah amongst others) says that the average age of video gamers is 32 and that 37 year olds buy the most software and that 30-somethings is who you should target because technically, everyone else is a niche gamer.
The issue is that people who have graduated college, probably have a decent career, most likely have a family and very likely little free time (all this statistically) are not going to want to jack around with anything that is more than install game, play game.
No one wants to be frustrated trying to have a good time and that's all DRM does for ANYONE. I have a purchased copy of Topple for my iPod Touch that after an update to the application will not install because it's "not playable on this iPod".
There's DRM and games for you and it doesn't always mean key codes and lockouts. You're not legally allowed to use your previous "license" once you agree to the new "license" by updating your game software. Legally you cannot use the older version even though the newer one doesn't work.
DRM can be limiting what I do legally and eliminating the ability to troubleshoot my computer or application.
I don't know much about SPARC but what's the prospects for using it in applications like video games? IBM is sitting SUPER pretty for having their chip in 3 different consoles.
To my understanding, the point of limiting SUPPORT for a release to a specific set of OS versions is that it makes it easier and cheaper to help users who have problems.
The Mac OS X argument is simple: it wasn't until 10.4 that Apple publicly stated they would freeze the API. Up until 10.4 Apple could change the standard API's and programs that operated a standard way could be broken. IIRC MS has not CHANGED the Win-32 API since 95. They have added to it, naturally, just like Apple.
I think it's important to remember all of the popular, positive attention Stephen Colbert has given to NASA over the years and science in general. He well deserves the name if for nothing else than for the great PR he brings NASA.
Did you even know there was an addition to the space station before it was on The Colbert Report? I didn't.
I didn't see a difference between my 360 and my Mac when I was using Netflix Instant play. I cancelled my Netflix subscription 2 months after the trial because I got tired of having to set up the instant play queue on my Mac and then go watch it on my 360. Maybe when they add the ability to at least search on 360 I'll get it back.
most small places don't allow charges under that to be put on plastic.
FYI, there is no credit card company that allows vendors to place a minimum charge amount. If you come across a vendor that claims they have a minimum amount, contact your card carrier and report them because they're breaking the agreement they have with the card carrier and, in some states, they're also breaking the law.
I played with Haiku. I was a big champion of BeOS when it first came out for PowerPC, I bought a PCI PowerMac for that specific reason.
That said, it's nice that the icons are vector-based, but the interface is not. If you change the default fonts, which is the SOLE purpose of the "Fonts" preference, window controls will clip your text.
The window manager does not care about the Deskbar. This doesn't make sense to me. I could SWEAR that choosing to have the Deskbar always on top would mean the window manager wouldn't try to draw newly spawned windows under it. I was wrong.
The default view for windows is list view and the window manager does not draw new windows wide enough to show the contents without scrolling horizontally.
Icons are vector-based but I can only choose common sizes of bitmap-based OSes.
I can only choose the sizes of icons in Icon View.
I can only choose font sizes from a pre-set list.
The colour picker is only RGB and does not have an eye dropper tool.
When tabbing to text boxes, it does not automatically highlight the text, if I want to change values, I have to select the text or delete it.
The OS contains permissions but is single-user (I know about the OS heritage, multiple users should have been added by now).
The list goes on. The gripes are valid. Other desktop environments don't suffer from most of the complaints I've made and to be honest, if developers really cared about Haiku they would be working on ways to make it better than other OSes instead of trying to create parity, that's what BeOS was about, being BETTER.
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The point the author of the article is trying to make is that by the time the crack or circumvention comes out, Ubisoft will have made the vast majority of the money they planned to make on the title. Strange enough, they aren't requiring an Xbox Live connection for the 360 version. I guess they only think Windows users are dirty thieves.
That's a new phenomenon (as in the last 20 years). Please research sampling so you know what you're talking about. Samples are now required to be licensed. You can give as much credit as you want, that still doesn't mean it's not copyright infringement unless you pay for the sample.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/streamingserver/
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html
Not everyone wants to search Google, check all those pages, try to set it up and fail, search Google for a solution, tweak the settings, find out the card you are using is incompatible...
We get that you are a geek and love to use Google but some people like to ask knowledgeable people a question and get an informed and CONCISE answer. If it irritated you so much to answer the question, maybe you just should not have answered it.
The reality is that most people do not live in New York, no one walks in LA, and Chicago is not really an intensely pedestrian city, either. DC may be an issue but there are only specific thoroughfares that people walk and they are not that crowded.
New York is not the United States. That is a VERY hard thing for New Yorkers to understand. In the end, it doesn't matter that in one city the pedestrian traffic is bad enough that using a cell phone makes people unaware of their surroundings because that city is New York. YOU try telling a New Yorker to put down their cell phone.
Haiku is not multi-user and in this day and age of malware, that's absolutely essential. Furthermore, I have a lot of other gripes about the current version of Haiku. Haiku is kind of like what if Classic Mac OS had melded A/UX into itself. Haiku suffers from many of the same issues Mac OS Classic had and just happens to have a few benefits from a Unix-like design.
I would rather have seen the Haiku interface developers work on Haiku as a desktop environment for Linux.
F-Spot is not very good. It's actually less usable than iPhoto 1.0 and if you are using RAW (which even consumer cameras use now) it lets you download the RAW image from the camera and SEEM to edit the RAW image but won't let you save it, and it does not tell you that you need to install UFRaw for that, and UFRaw is not listed as a dependency, which it should be. Typical typical Linux bullshit.
Digikam is a much better application but it is dependent on all kinds of KDE garbage (like Konqueror) to run and I use Gnome and don't AT ALL like the look of KDE.
Because RAW conversion is still a proprietary ordeal in general, which is why open source RAW converters are not so great. Adobe's DNG format is actually a pretty good idea but almost no cameras support it natively.
Windows 7 did not have drivers for a common Texas Instrument FlashMedia drive, does not have a basic Synaptics touchpad (or just a touchpad HID) driver so I could turn off tapping, did not install a driver form my Nvidia 8400M GT and when I put my VAIO to sleep the brightness controls no longer work.
This is an almost 2 year old laptop without any exotic hardware. I am thankful that Vista drivers work but Windows 7 is hardly the new Mac OS.
ROFLMFAO!
Yes, Microsoft had an incredible product and it was marketing that ruined it.
Wasn't that the sad old song IBM sang about OS/2?
10.6 probably DOES work with your 1998 Winprinter if you have a parallel to USB adapter. Thank you, Gutenprint.
Uh, launch WHERE? You've got some strange selective memory. It was over a year after the iPhone was released and just short of a year after the iPod Touch was released that third-party applications existed without hacking your device. I say we look at the time period. The G1 is not even a year old yet and it has an exponentially higher amount of third-party applications in that time than Apple had on their devices in the same period.
Opera's potential market right now is the same as Netscape's could have been had they not pretended that the internet was Windows. Opera needs to port their little browser to everything that is not a PC. They need to make Opera available for every SmartPhone, every game system, every toaster. They need to pretend Windows doesn't exist the same way Microsoft pretends nothing BUT Windows exists. The issue is if Opera doesn't get on this, WebKit is going to make them irrelevant.
Cell phones for at least the last five years have been required to have GPS in them for the purpose of 911. You're actually more likely to be found with a cell phone than a house phone because they'll know where in the house you are from your GPS location.
you can't use Google Docs on Android. I have a G1 and I'm pretty irked about that. All Google says is that they plan on it working on Android but give no timeline or whether it will be a native app or through Chrome Lite. They say the same vague statement about PDF.
You ask Apple if that's possible, as of November 2008 they were only a few percentage points behind RIM and Windows Mobile with ONE PRODUCT.
Well, after seeing this is I can understand their terms of service. You can't have a linear thought process to understand why they have the terms they do.
They're trying to corner the market on the semantic web. It's not the results that are technically all that interesting, it's how you can use those results that makes it worth money.
Google is for all intents and purposes a catalogue. It doesn't return any data (and as time has gone on returns fewer relevant search results).
W/A is returning data about data. This is where the internet gets interesting and they are trying to say they own the results they give you, which is not true but they do own the right to keep you from using those results without paying them a royalty on their service if they choose. Lexis Nexis does the same thing, basically.
In Feb 2006 David Perry (the sexy bitch behind MDK and Messiah amongst others) says that the average age of video gamers is 32 and that 37 year olds buy the most software and that 30-somethings is who you should target because technically, everyone else is a niche gamer.
The issue is that people who have graduated college, probably have a decent career, most likely have a family and very likely little free time (all this statistically) are not going to want to jack around with anything that is more than install game, play game.
No one wants to be frustrated trying to have a good time and that's all DRM does for ANYONE. I have a purchased copy of Topple for my iPod Touch that after an update to the application will not install because it's "not playable on this iPod".
There's DRM and games for you and it doesn't always mean key codes and lockouts. You're not legally allowed to use your previous "license" once you agree to the new "license" by updating your game software. Legally you cannot use the older version even though the newer one doesn't work.
DRM can be limiting what I do legally and eliminating the ability to troubleshoot my computer or application.
I don't know much about SPARC but what's the prospects for using it in applications like video games? IBM is sitting SUPER pretty for having their chip in 3 different consoles.
To my understanding, the point of limiting SUPPORT for a release to a specific set of OS versions is that it makes it easier and cheaper to help users who have problems.
The Mac OS X argument is simple: it wasn't until 10.4 that Apple publicly stated they would freeze the API. Up until 10.4 Apple could change the standard API's and programs that operated a standard way could be broken. IIRC MS has not CHANGED the Win-32 API since 95. They have added to it, naturally, just like Apple.
I think it's important to remember all of the popular, positive attention Stephen Colbert has given to NASA over the years and science in general. He well deserves the name if for nothing else than for the great PR he brings NASA.
Did you even know there was an addition to the space station before it was on The Colbert Report? I didn't.
I didn't see a difference between my 360 and my Mac when I was using Netflix Instant play. I cancelled my Netflix subscription 2 months after the trial because I got tired of having to set up the instant play queue on my Mac and then go watch it on my 360. Maybe when they add the ability to at least search on 360 I'll get it back.
FYI, there is no credit card company that allows vendors to place a minimum charge amount. If you come across a vendor that claims they have a minimum amount, contact your card carrier and report them because they're breaking the agreement they have with the card carrier and, in some states, they're also breaking the law.
What happened to the machine that could "microwave" plastic to break it down into its components?
I played with Haiku. I was a big champion of BeOS when it first came out for PowerPC, I bought a PCI PowerMac for that specific reason.
That said, it's nice that the icons are vector-based, but the interface is not. If you change the default fonts, which is the SOLE purpose of the "Fonts" preference, window controls will clip your text.
The window manager does not care about the Deskbar. This doesn't make sense to me. I could SWEAR that choosing to have the Deskbar always on top would mean the window manager wouldn't try to draw newly spawned windows under it. I was wrong.
The default view for windows is list view and the window manager does not draw new windows wide enough to show the contents without scrolling horizontally.
Icons are vector-based but I can only choose common sizes of bitmap-based OSes.
I can only choose the sizes of icons in Icon View.
I can only choose font sizes from a pre-set list.
The colour picker is only RGB and does not have an eye dropper tool.
When tabbing to text boxes, it does not automatically highlight the text, if I want to change values, I have to select the text or delete it.
The OS contains permissions but is single-user (I know about the OS heritage, multiple users should have been added by now).
The list goes on. The gripes are valid. Other desktop environments don't suffer from most of the complaints I've made and to be honest, if developers really cared about Haiku they would be working on ways to make it better than other OSes instead of trying to create parity, that's what BeOS was about, being BETTER.