I think it's more likely that they are just trying to show a profit next quarter. The price cuts look more like an attempt to sell more product. Hence we see new products with slightly lower prices, drastic price cuts on the cinema displays, price cuts on the eMac (which was overpriced before) and slight improvments to the iMac.
Of course I would love to believe that they have a new processor lined up, it just seems too soon for some reason.
I have to say there is a tie between the Anime email and the Trogdor the Burninator email. There was just something about Strong Bad burning up Strong Sad's drawing and then hearing the song at the end.
You want to talk about utter stupidity? You ignored the part where I said, "The other point that is typically argued in this situation is increasing import tarrifs." I didn't say I agreed, I didn't say I disagreed, simply adding the missing element of the parent posting.
For great examples of this look at production moving from the US to Japan to Taiwan and now to mainland China because in each Country the production of items became too expensive due to increased wages.
You are forgetting about import tarrifs. The other point that is typically argued in this situation is increasing import tarrifs enough that imported products are not significantly cheaper than those manufactured in the US.
Interesting, up to this point I had never heard of that. If I coulnd't find a no cd crack for a game I'd end up ripping an ISO and mounting it using daemon tools.
On the other hand the game industry continues to place copy protection mechanisms on thier CD's that disrupt the ability of some people to play the game they just purchased. I've had several games that I had to find a No CD crack for so I could play the game that I had just purchased. Typically I have the most trouble with Secure ROM protected games.
Why does it have to have DRM? You've already paid for the movie and probably paid an additional fee to have the movie available for download. Rather than assuming that every potential customer is also a potential criminal and adding costs and restrictions to thier products through DRM these companies should be going after those people that choose to violate the copyright agreements and/or the law.
I could actually care less about thier old business models. I think that RIAA and MPAA companies tend to price things at a point higher than what the products are worth.
The issue I have with DRM is that it can be highly restrictive. If I buy an Audio CD containing an artists music I expect to be able to play that cd in my car, my stereo, on my computer, or other devices capable of playing the audio. I also expect to be able to take the media off of the cd and store it on another medium if I so choose. With DRM as proposed by Sony (and some other companies) we would only be able to use the media in devices that these corporations choose. This is extremly unfair and I believe that because of this these companies should not be supported.
Or better yet how about we discourage the use of DRM by not purchasing or using products that contain it and not developing formats that support DRM. Unless of course you don't have a problem with DRM. The only thing that corporations understand is the bottom line, and until the addition of these technologies affects thier bottom lines negativly we will continue to see an increase in thier use.
Also, I believe the names you are looking for are Ogg Tarkin or Ogg Theora.
Yes he did specifically say he switched to Gentoo. I was just trying to infer that based on the differances between the Debian ideology and his needs that he would probably be served better by another distribution. His statment simply states that this is true. I suppose it would have sounded better if I stated he was being served better by another distro because of the differances, but it's a little late now;)
You really need to read the Debian social contract before ranting about what they are doing. The primary goals of the distribution are quite obviously differant from what you are looking for and you will probably be better served by another distribution.
If you want Linux to "win the desktop" then you should make that your priority and work in that direction, but please don't assume that is the goal of every Linux distribution under the sun. Debian is a quality distro that attempts to adhere to a fairly strict set of standards. I personally appreciate that they adhere to those standards because it's one less thing for me to worry about when using the distro.
Actually I believe that Apple has to trademark each instance of a product name starting with the i. So iCommune should be in the free and clear there.
iCommune won't be doing ANY copy protection circumvention. It says it will be done using Rendevous which should allow it to attach to not only iTunes but other Rendevous enabled applications as well.
I bought a copy of NWN as well. If you read my other posts you would see that. In fact the box is still sitting on my bookshelf five feet away from me. My CD-RW drive (which wouldn't read it) was purhcased only one - two months earlier. My DVD drive purchased 6 months before that would read it. I installed from the drive that worked. My friend that couldn't get it to play at all (until the nocd patch) had relativly new cdrom.
The problem is that the copy protection schemes don't work well on quite a bit of hardware. If you paid any attention to the Bioware forums during the release of NWN you would have seen the multitude of complaints about the copy protection stopping legitimate customers from using the product they just bought.
I've mostly been referring to NWN, if you had read the public forums that Bioware put up you would know that there were HUNDREDS of people calling InfoGrames and complaining, there were HUNDREDS of people posting about the problem. Links to the nocd crack were being pulled from the forums and InfroGrames response was along the lines of "Sorry, get a new cdrom!"
Worse is that for the first month or two people with legit copies of the game end up getting nocd cracks from the same places as people stealing the game. That doesn't make any sense. It just points people that would normally buy the game to channels of getting the game for free.
Yes, they did remove it with one of the patches. The problem is it shouldn't have shipped with that copy protection scheme in the first place. I don't blame Bioware for the problem as it was the publishers decision, but it unfortunatly reflects badly on Bioware.
When NWN shipped I was able to play. My very good friend who purchased the game the same day, the same time was unable to play because his "slightly older" cdrom couldn't read disc 1 thanks to the secure rom copy protection scheme. This is becoming a VERY common problem with newer games.
Not only do we have to hope that it's finished (Sim City 4 shipped WITHOUT online support WTF!) but we have to worry about them shipping with copy protection that makes it unplayable (Never Winter Nights, UT2003). I've personally about had it with Game publishers. If you can't ship a finished product in a playable form then maybe it's time to get into a differant business. Then again, maybe I'm just bitter.
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I dunno about other places, but our local talent sucks ass. Not that I would want to listen to Carson Daley, but it would be hard to be worse.
Damnit you beat me to the punch by a few seconds ;)
I think it's more likely that they are just trying to show a profit next quarter. The price cuts look more like an attempt to sell more product. Hence we see new products with slightly lower prices, drastic price cuts on the cinema displays, price cuts on the eMac (which was overpriced before) and slight improvments to the iMac.
Of course I would love to believe that they have a new processor lined up, it just seems too soon for some reason.
Well, maybe they've started filtering /. at the firewall. That would probably recover a LOT of lost productivity ;)
I have to say there is a tie between the Anime email and the Trogdor the Burninator email. There was just something about Strong Bad burning up Strong Sad's drawing and then hearing the song at the end.
I think that might be bordering on obsesivness.
You want to talk about utter stupidity? You ignored the part where I said, "The other point that is typically argued in this situation is increasing import tarrifs." I didn't say I agreed, I didn't say I disagreed, simply adding the missing element of the parent posting.
For great examples of this look at production moving from the US to Japan to Taiwan and now to mainland China because in each Country the production of items became too expensive due to increased wages.
You are forgetting about import tarrifs. The other point that is typically argued in this situation is increasing import tarrifs enough that imported products are not significantly cheaper than those manufactured in the US.
Interesting, up to this point I had never heard of that. If I coulnd't find a no cd crack for a game I'd end up ripping an ISO and mounting it using daemon tools.
On the other hand the game industry continues to place copy protection mechanisms on thier CD's that disrupt the ability of some people to play the game they just purchased. I've had several games that I had to find a No CD crack for so I could play the game that I had just purchased. Typically I have the most trouble with Secure ROM protected games.
Why does it have to have DRM? You've already paid for the movie and probably paid an additional fee to have the movie available for download. Rather than assuming that every potential customer is also a potential criminal and adding costs and restrictions to thier products through DRM these companies should be going after those people that choose to violate the copyright agreements and/or the law.
I could actually care less about thier old business models. I think that RIAA and MPAA companies tend to price things at a point higher than what the products are worth.
The issue I have with DRM is that it can be highly restrictive. If I buy an Audio CD containing an artists music I expect to be able to play that cd in my car, my stereo, on my computer, or other devices capable of playing the audio. I also expect to be able to take the media off of the cd and store it on another medium if I so choose. With DRM as proposed by Sony (and some other companies) we would only be able to use the media in devices that these corporations choose. This is extremly unfair and I believe that because of this these companies should not be supported.
Or better yet how about we discourage the use of DRM by not purchasing or using products that contain it and not developing formats that support DRM. Unless of course you don't have a problem with DRM. The only thing that corporations understand is the bottom line, and until the addition of these technologies affects thier bottom lines negativly we will continue to see an increase in thier use.
Also, I believe the names you are looking for are Ogg Tarkin or Ogg Theora.
Yes he did specifically say he switched to Gentoo. I was just trying to infer that based on the differances between the Debian ideology and his needs that he would probably be served better by another distribution. His statment simply states that this is true. I suppose it would have sounded better if I stated he was being served better by another distro because of the differances, but it's a little late now ;)
You really need to read the Debian social contract before ranting about what they are doing. The primary goals of the distribution are quite obviously differant from what you are looking for and you will probably be better served by another distribution.
If you want Linux to "win the desktop" then you should make that your priority and work in that direction, but please don't assume that is the goal of every Linux distribution under the sun. Debian is a quality distro that attempts to adhere to a fairly strict set of standards. I personally appreciate that they adhere to those standards because it's one less thing for me to worry about when using the distro.
Actually I believe that Apple has to trademark each instance of a product name starting with the i. So iCommune should be in the free and clear there.
iCommune won't be doing ANY copy protection circumvention. It says it will be done using Rendevous which should allow it to attach to not only iTunes but other Rendevous enabled applications as well.
I bought a copy of NWN as well. If you read my other posts you would see that. In fact the box is still sitting on my bookshelf five feet away from me. My CD-RW drive (which wouldn't read it) was purhcased only one - two months earlier. My DVD drive purchased 6 months before that would read it. I installed from the drive that worked. My friend that couldn't get it to play at all (until the nocd patch) had relativly new cdrom.
The problem is that the copy protection schemes don't work well on quite a bit of hardware. If you paid any attention to the Bioware forums during the release of NWN you would have seen the multitude of complaints about the copy protection stopping legitimate customers from using the product they just bought.
I've mostly been referring to NWN, if you had read the public forums that Bioware put up you would know that there were HUNDREDS of people calling InfoGrames and complaining, there were HUNDREDS of people posting about the problem. Links to the nocd crack were being pulled from the forums and InfroGrames response was along the lines of "Sorry, get a new cdrom!"
That's unacceptable and is the real problem.
Worse is that for the first month or two people with legit copies of the game end up getting nocd cracks from the same places as people stealing the game. That doesn't make any sense. It just points people that would normally buy the game to channels of getting the game for free.
Yes, they did remove it with one of the patches. The problem is it shouldn't have shipped with that copy protection scheme in the first place. I don't blame Bioware for the problem as it was the publishers decision, but it unfortunatly reflects badly on Bioware.
When NWN shipped I was able to play. My very good friend who purchased the game the same day, the same time was unable to play because his "slightly older" cdrom couldn't read disc 1 thanks to the secure rom copy protection scheme. This is becoming a VERY common problem with newer games.
They have, it's called the Internet... only this time it's real!
Not only do we have to hope that it's finished (Sim City 4 shipped WITHOUT online support WTF!) but we have to worry about them shipping with copy protection that makes it unplayable (Never Winter Nights, UT2003). I've personally about had it with Game publishers. If you can't ship a finished product in a playable form then maybe it's time to get into a differant business. Then again, maybe I'm just bitter.