Yesterday you rant about giving up too much piracy, today you rant about them not being readable? I pity those cluelessnesses' failure in appreciating the beauty of unbreakable security with Write-Only-Memory(WOM) technology from Sygnetics in 1972.
What's the worst that could happen, they screw it up and you die?
You'll lose all your body hair; become a human-biting-albino that're very sensitive to sunlight; start biting humans and then turn them into your kind; you'll keep your biting until the T-virus in your body because air-bourne infecting disease, when you'd find no human alive for you to bite.
I didn't mean it'd happen, but since you asked for the worse...
How the hell is a USB dongle for a game "customer-friendly"? Actually, how is a USB dongle for any piece of software customer-friendly?
With a plug-n-play dongle: you don't need to install; you don't need to web-register prior to playing; you can ebay it when you get bored with it...(the list could go on but I think I shouldn't do all the thinking myself.:)
If you don't find those anti-piracy measures in recent games annoying, you probably haven't been using a paid copy of game for the past few years. ^^
Perhaps if everyone did this, we'd see DRM take on a more practical appearance like a USB dongle - or even the entire game on a USB dongle - and without time limits or requiring web authentication.
This approach is too customer-friendly for them to consider. The mission of DRM is more than destroying piracy, it means to destroying second-hand game market and cross-boundary water-goods trade as well.
The era of customer-oriented marketing strategy has long gone. Nowaday, all customers are treated as criminals and pirates. Face it man. ARRRR!
I'm currently establishing a new research lab, estimating how many booms to drop in destinated locations in order to achieve world peace. The project is (expected to be) funded by major weapon manufacturers. Frequent travel between US and Israel is needed because there's where we found major suppliers and clients.
I think this suit your interest very well, please submit your CV.
Appliances produced by Tumbleweed, Allot and Radware are all heavily adopting FOSS. They can secure their VC investment, their brand and their business; their staff contribute back to FOSS community and keep it growing. They wouldn't whine, do they?
we all know it's nonsense, when he said no FOSS software giant exists. What he actually meant was 'No FOSS Software Giant that can cash in big profit for small group of people'. If it can't take huge profit, it's then a failure. Bullshit. People paid overprice product just because there're no other better alternative around. Things changed, face it.
That reminds me Chinese military leader Mao Zedong required his generals play chess game weiqi with him. I'd mod him insightful if I've any mod point. ^^
Really, I'm surprised you still selling opensource solutions without being driven out of the market.
I didn't say you should switch to closesource. My friends' companies develop with, on, from opensource projects and still make profit with them. Why? Because they know how to keep up with the market.
They sell Appliances, like those CISCO routers and Checkpoint firewall, but perform some other functions like MTA, Virus scanner, load balancers, etc.. Appliances with opensource elements in them, such that they can be trademarked and brand-protected, can be maintained, without paying huge royalty. Above all, you can still contribute opensource projects back to the community, and keep it growing.
This is just one example to make use of opensource projects. Honestly I don't really know your business so I don't have further suggestion for you. But I'm very sure the problem doesn't lie in adopting opensource projects. Someone else makes money with them, if you can't, don't blame opensource projects, blame your marketing strategy.
But if Toyota doesn't specify which wallpapers are allegedly in violation, can't Harry just ignore the takedown request, since the request doesn't comply with the DMCA?
Yes he could. The problem is that Harry didn't ignore it, but responded to it. Toyota's lawyers have full right to claim for damage as a result of his 'request'(if the case is going to be proceeded, that is)
DMCA broadly covers not just "Anti-circumvention exemptions", but even "Vessel Hull Design Protection Act". Therefore, there's chance that the wallpapers might violate one of two in it.
When site owner Harry Maugans requested clarification on exactly which wallpapers were copyrighted by Toyota, he was told that for them to cite specifics (in order to file proper DMCA Takedown Notices), they would invoice Desktop Nexus for their labor.
Harry should really consult his lawyer before making request.
It was him who asked for clarification. In some circumstance Toyota could really request payback.
I suggest Harry to comply, and send an invoice to Toyota for his labor, and it happens that Harry's labor is very expensive, say 1 million/hr...
Luckily for me, my journey was to demonstrate this to my clients for selling some linux appliances (firing up BSOD at the end of my powerpoint demonstration something like that's cheap joke I know ^^). You may refers to here, but I'm not sure it works for all version of XP (I forgot which I had, long time ago anyway), and backup before you try.
The moral of this experience is to avoid mentioning "WINDOWS crashing" in a plane. ^^
That reminds me of a scary journey with Taiwan airline.
My flight didn't offer on-seat TV, but overhead TV only displayed information such as course and weather. Sometime the information pages would switch to camera view displaying what looked like real-time images from a camera shooting below the airplane.
It was good to look at, until it suddenly crashed, accompanyed by a loud sound that was probably caused by normal turbulence. Some passengers didn't know what was going on and started to scream uncontrollably.
I recognized they familiar screen, and attempted to conform the coward by saying that "Don't worry, it's just WINDOWS crashing."
More panic broke out, and the cockpit was in total chaos.
BTW, talking about the scary part, I almost got arrested for causing terror in the air. Had I not repeated what it looks like a WINDOWS crashing in my laptop I'd still be in Taiwan prison.
Some might think that this is yet another ridiculous taxation - imagine how government is going to use all the virtual tax they've collect: establish a virtual central bank? Exchange the virtual money in virtual exchange market like ebay?
Actually they don't need to. Most forms of virutal money in China are having their real life exchange market.
In the article you can find that cute QQ moscot representing qq.com, who issues Q-coins. This is one very good example. QQ-coins can be used in virtual exchange, and real-life exchange. QQ-coins in your QQ account can exchange fixed-value (say 5-yuan) QQ cards, which can in-turn exchange real goods of the same yuan value in many stores.
As you may see, well-established virutal money such as QQ-coins has real and stable exchange market.
Of course, this new tax might not impact virtual trading as much as wsj would imagine. China people trades virtual goods with real money. Alipay, a paypal-like payment method, has been very well-adopted in China. Existing taxation laws has already covered online trading as such.
After numerous rounds of "We don't know if Osama Bin Ladin is still alive," Bin Ladin himself decided to send George W. Bush a note in his own handwriting to let Bush know that he was still in the game.
Bush opened the note which appeared to contain a single line of coded message: 370HSSV-0773H.
Bush was baffled, so he E-mailed it to John McCain. McCain and his aides had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI, so it went to the CIA, then to the NSA.
With no clue as to its meaning, the FBI finally asked Britain's MI-6 for help. Within a few seconds, MI-6 cabled back with this reply: "Tell Bush that he is holding the message upside down."
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: "This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward."
Apart from above-mentioned free/cheap broadband access in all medium to large hotels, China Mobile also offer free wifi access for major Olympic districts for the celebration of Beijing 2008.
Had you needed to use Internet in Media Village you can always subscribe to use China Mobile and Unicom's mobile internet access. Slow but very reliable for narrow-band transmission.
This high Internet access charge is in fact a penalty charge for those who still thinks China is an undeveloped country where Internet is scared resource. ^^
The Beijing Olympics' authority surely have a sense of humors in this case.
Hire spamming agency to spam your potential customers on behalf of your competitors. Compare your sales figures with your competitors at the end of a quarter. There you've solid proof to convince your boss.
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Yesterday you rant about giving up too much piracy, today you rant about them not being readable? I pity those cluelessnesses' failure in appreciating the beauty of unbreakable security with Write-Only-Memory(WOM) technology from Sygnetics in 1972.
Enough about it. Get off my lawn.
What's the worst that could happen, they screw it up and you die?
You'll lose all your body hair; become a human-biting-albino that're very sensitive to sunlight; start biting humans and then turn them into your kind; you'll keep your biting until the T-virus in your body because air-bourne infecting disease, when you'd find no human alive for you to bite.
I didn't mean it'd happen, but since you asked for the worse...
How the hell is a USB dongle for a game "customer-friendly"? Actually, how is a USB dongle for any piece of software customer-friendly?
With a plug-n-play dongle: you don't need to install; you don't need to web-register prior to playing; you can ebay it when you get bored with it...(the list could go on but I think I shouldn't do all the thinking myself. :)
If you don't find those anti-piracy measures in recent games annoying, you probably haven't been using a paid copy of game for the past few years. ^^
Perhaps if everyone did this, we'd see DRM take on a more practical appearance like a USB dongle - or even the entire game on a USB dongle - and without time limits or requiring web authentication.
This approach is too customer-friendly for them to consider. The mission of DRM is more than destroying piracy, it means to destroying second-hand game market and cross-boundary water-goods trade as well.
The era of customer-oriented marketing strategy has long gone. Nowaday, all customers are treated as criminals and pirates. Face it man. ARRRR!
It'd not be too bad, consider some of them put males and females in one single large cell!
They flip side is that you'd possibly be treated as female nevertheless.
I'm currently establishing a new research lab, estimating how many booms to drop in destinated locations in order to achieve world peace. The project is (expected to be) funded by major weapon manufacturers. Frequent travel between US and Israel is needed because there's where we found major suppliers and clients.
I think this suit your interest very well, please submit your CV.
Loser.
I'm trying to be objective here.
Appliances produced by Tumbleweed, Allot and Radware are all heavily adopting FOSS. They can secure their VC investment, their brand and their business; their staff contribute back to FOSS community and keep it growing. They wouldn't whine, do they?
we all know it's nonsense, when he said no FOSS software giant exists. What he actually meant was 'No FOSS Software Giant that can cash in big profit for small group of people'. If it can't take huge profit, it's then a failure. Bullshit. People paid overprice product just because there're no other better alternative around. Things changed, face it.
This presentation outlined a brief history of the deal between HavenCo and Sealand.
HavenCo has to pay Sealand considerable amount to keep the business running there. Therefore, the recently financial crisis would hit HavenCo badly.
How about a nice game of chess?
That reminds me Chinese military leader Mao Zedong required his generals play chess game weiqi with him. I'd mod him insightful if I've any mod point. ^^
Really, I'm surprised you still selling opensource solutions without being driven out of the market.
I didn't say you should switch to closesource. My friends' companies develop with, on, from opensource projects and still make profit with them. Why? Because they know how to keep up with the market.
They sell Appliances, like those CISCO routers and Checkpoint firewall, but perform some other functions like MTA, Virus scanner, load balancers, etc.. Appliances with opensource elements in them, such that they can be trademarked and brand-protected, can be maintained, without paying huge royalty. Above all, you can still contribute opensource projects back to the community, and keep it growing.
This is just one example to make use of opensource projects. Honestly I don't really know your business so I don't have further suggestion for you. But I'm very sure the problem doesn't lie in adopting opensource projects. Someone else makes money with them, if you can't, don't blame opensource projects, blame your marketing strategy.
I must have woken up in the wrong parallel universe.
Hi there. I'm new here.
But if Toyota doesn't specify which wallpapers are allegedly in violation, can't Harry just ignore the takedown request, since the request doesn't comply with the DMCA?
Yes he could. The problem is that Harry didn't ignore it, but responded to it. Toyota's lawyers have full right to claim for damage as a result of his 'request'(if the case is going to be proceeded, that is)
DMCA broadly covers not just "Anti-circumvention exemptions", but even "Vessel Hull Design Protection Act". Therefore, there's chance that the wallpapers might violate one of two in it.
When site owner Harry Maugans requested clarification on exactly which wallpapers were copyrighted by Toyota, he was told that for them to cite specifics (in order to file proper DMCA Takedown Notices), they would invoice Desktop Nexus for their labor.
Harry should really consult his lawyer before making request.
It was him who asked for clarification. In some circumstance Toyota could really request payback.
I suggest Harry to comply, and send an invoice to Toyota for his labor, and it happens that Harry's labor is very expensive, say 1 million/hr...
Luckily for me, my journey was to demonstrate this to my clients for selling some linux appliances (firing up BSOD at the end of my powerpoint demonstration something like that's cheap joke I know ^^). You may refers to here, but I'm not sure it works for all version of XP (I forgot which I had, long time ago anyway), and backup before you try.
The moral of this experience is to avoid mentioning "WINDOWS crashing" in a plane. ^^
That reminds me of a scary journey with Taiwan airline.
My flight didn't offer on-seat TV, but overhead TV only displayed information such as course and weather. Sometime the information pages would switch to camera view displaying what looked like real-time images from a camera shooting below the airplane.
It was good to look at, until it suddenly crashed, accompanyed by a loud sound that was probably caused by normal turbulence. Some passengers didn't know what was going on and started to scream uncontrollably.
I recognized they familiar screen, and attempted to conform the coward by saying that "Don't worry, it's just WINDOWS crashing."
More panic broke out, and the cockpit was in total chaos.
BTW, talking about the scary part, I almost got arrested for causing terror in the air. Had I not repeated what it looks like a WINDOWS crashing in my laptop I'd still be in Taiwan prison.
I think you misread my first paragraph as my opinion. XD
My only opinion is that this tax doesn't affect virutal trading that much, the rest are just fyi. ^^
Thanks for the clarification anyway.
Some might think that this is yet another ridiculous taxation - imagine how government is going to use all the virtual tax they've collect: establish a virtual central bank? Exchange the virtual money in virtual exchange market like ebay?
Actually they don't need to. Most forms of virutal money in China are having their real life exchange market.
In the article you can find that cute QQ moscot representing qq.com, who issues Q-coins. This is one very good example. QQ-coins can be used in virtual exchange, and real-life exchange. QQ-coins in your QQ account can exchange fixed-value (say 5-yuan) QQ cards, which can in-turn exchange real goods of the same yuan value in many stores.
As you may see, well-established virutal money such as QQ-coins has real and stable exchange market.
Of course, this new tax might not impact virtual trading as much as wsj would imagine. China people trades virtual goods with real money. Alipay, a paypal-like payment method, has been very well-adopted in China. Existing taxation laws has already covered online trading as such.
they'd make haste, as it'd be very awkward if the trial went passed Windows XP's life cycle.
Otherwise they might have to do another trial on Vista; and by the time the trial ends, Vista's life cycle...
After numerous rounds of "We don't know if Osama Bin Ladin is still alive," Bin Ladin himself decided to send George W. Bush a note in his own handwriting to let Bush know that he was still in the game.
Bush opened the note which appeared to contain a single line of coded message: 370HSSV-0773H.
Bush was baffled, so he E-mailed it to John McCain. McCain and his aides had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI, so it went to the CIA, then to the NSA.
With no clue as to its meaning, the FBI finally asked Britain's MI-6 for help. Within a few seconds, MI-6 cabled back with this reply: "Tell Bush that he is holding the message upside down."
in getting a/s/l:
vulcanary 108 years old/biological male but engineered female/YU5567. XH558, Vulcan
from planet Vulcan?
Hold your flamethrower! I'm not making fun of Gary McKinnon's look. I'm a huge fan of Spock, and I do think he looks so COOL. XD
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier:
"This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward."
"We called them, X-Prions"
Apart from above-mentioned free/cheap broadband access in all medium to large hotels, China Mobile also offer free wifi access for major Olympic districts for the celebration of Beijing 2008.
Had you needed to use Internet in Media Village you can always subscribe to use China Mobile and Unicom's mobile internet access. Slow but very reliable for narrow-band transmission.
This high Internet access charge is in fact a penalty charge for those who still thinks China is an undeveloped country where Internet is scared resource. ^^
The Beijing Olympics' authority surely have a sense of humors in this case.
I'd strongly recommend all of the works of Michael Moorcock. He wrote sci-fi as well as fantasy.
Hire spamming agency to spam your potential customers on behalf of your competitors. Compare your sales figures with your competitors at the end of a quarter. There you've solid proof to convince your boss.