From a cost standpoint the Xbox 360 really didn't help. With the rate at which the early models failed for each unit sold they probably had to reserve two more units as replacements (some people were lucky, others had to send in their units four times or more).
To be fair, there's still Symbian, but since Nokia wants to reserve their smartphone sector to Meego it will soon be restricted to the featurephone playground.
It's far from over. Ring 0 and Ring 1 problems (e.g., faulty/incompatible drivers) still exist, although nowhere near as many as in the days of the Win9x systems.
The scan of your ID card also serves second purpose. In case your wallet is stolen you simply provide your name, address, date of birth and together with a visual confirmation they'll let you withdraw money at the counter until your replacement bank card is mailed to you.
True, credit cards aren't used that often outside online/mail-order transactions and what's referred to as "EC cards" is a different kind of animal ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque_guarantee_card ).
It's not that unusual. The Star Destroyer crashed in the "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" trailer was a fan art 3D model a fan had created and then released online. The model was published under the explicit requirement that it was only to be used for non-commercial purposes. Of course that was ignored, just like it was ignored when another model by the same fan was used for the second Family Guy Star Wars special. In both cases it was easy to identify, since the surface detailing included patterns which differed from all filming models.
You can use some Debian-compatible apps, as long as they're compatible with the platform itself (no x68-only libraries), things like double-click and drag&drop pose a problem and many applications react sluggish at best. And the less said about native apps like Canola (performance measured in "bugs per minute") the better.
Things may improve in the future with the new devices (larger screens, move to Qt), but after the half-assed job Nokia did with the N900 (e.g., that Ovi Store clusterfuck, no native host mode for the USB port, keyboard would've neeeded another row,...) I'll think twice before buying one of their devices again. And that's coming from someone who has been buying Nokia devices since the mid-90's (the 7710 was a true godsend).
Actually one of the disadvantages of the N900 is that it's too small (screen & keyboard). Whenever I have to use some form of public transport I usually take my 5" Archos Android tablet with me too, since its larger screen is more comfortable. And it doesn't hurt that Android offers far more apps than Maemo. OTOH writing your own Android apps can be a pain in the ass, since they did such a half-assed job with the debugging capabilities of the SDK's emulator. But that's something for a different topic.
The rule of setting the worst-case damages at three times the purchase costs would be pretty reasonable for your everyday private user.
Take the average torrent leecher as an example: - The user has downloaded it once and uploaded pieces at the same time. - For the sake of the argument let's assume that he took it from a tracker that requires you to upload as much as you download. - Now the damages would be at twice the purchase costs - Since some torrents are requested more than others and hence the upload ratio varies between 0.001 and (not often) over 1 in the time it took you to download the data, just lock it at three times the purchase costs and you're set.
Hell, if the BSA catches a company using pirated software they often just require them to buy the licenses retroactively plus a 0-100% premium.
If you try to criticize someone on the topic at least read TFA before you do.
The editor took the original article, made some half-assed changes and then had the gall to suggest that if anything the original author should pay them for what she did after she took the original text and that it's the author who should be grateful that she didn't credit someone else as the author on top of that.
Such impudence is more akin to the thinking behind Hollywood Accounting.
Depends on your field of work. There are many web-based monitoring applications which use Flash to display graphs (moves the burden of transforming values into graphics to the client, freeing up server resources in the process).
I'll believe that once I see it with my own eyes. In the past I've encountered several cases where IE had problems with correctly-written scripts in Microsoft's Javascript dialect. To me it was just a case of consistency. If they ignore other people's standards then why should they comply with their own ones?
There's infinite money to be made in selling air! Our profit margins are infinite! etc. This is what people tell themselves. And then comes the reality.
Kids usually just had an adult buy the games or simply got a pirated version. In the best case the regulations were rendered useless (only wasting time & money) and in the worst the game companies didn't get paid.
Of course in Germany the games were screened by representatives from the catholic and lutheran churches, psychologists and other education "experts". In other words, senile old farts and other people so far removed from reality (and games in particular) it's not even funny.
Does it stop there or have some different implementations been written by the same developers, leading to the same approach both times? Happened on several occasions in case of Unix/Linux.
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From a cost standpoint the Xbox 360 really didn't help. With the rate at which the early models failed for each unit sold they probably had to reserve two more units as replacements (some people were lucky, others had to send in their units four times or more).
To be fair, there's still Symbian, but since Nokia wants to reserve their smartphone sector to Meego it will soon be restricted to the featurephone playground.
It's far from over. Ring 0 and Ring 1 problems (e.g., faulty/incompatible drivers) still exist, although nowhere near as many as in the days of the Win9x systems.
The scan of your ID card also serves second purpose. In case your wallet is stolen you simply provide your name, address, date of birth and together with a visual confirmation they'll let you withdraw money at the counter until your replacement bank card is mailed to you.
True, credit cards aren't used that often outside online/mail-order transactions and what's referred to as "EC cards" is a different kind of animal ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque_guarantee_card ).
It's not that unusual.
The Star Destroyer crashed in the "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" trailer was a fan art 3D model a fan had created and then released online. The model was published under the explicit requirement that it was only to be used for non-commercial purposes.
Of course that was ignored, just like it was ignored when another model by the same fan was used for the second Family Guy Star Wars special.
In both cases it was easy to identify, since the surface detailing included patterns which differed from all filming models.
Guilty as charged. :p
Did he run out of sharks?
True, it's a glorified Wiimote. Nothing like what they used for Avatar.
OTOH the Virtual Cinematography feature in the next version of LightWave will be much closer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJauu_vB2A even though it only takes care of the camera part and not the kind of realtime two-stage (body + face) motion capturing Avatar used. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJauu_vB2A
Us europeans will stop pretending Spotify is available everywhere ...
Everywhere? It's not even available in all European countries?
You can use some Debian-compatible apps, as long as they're compatible with the platform itself (no x68-only libraries), things like double-click and drag&drop pose a problem and many applications react sluggish at best. And the less said about native apps like Canola (performance measured in "bugs per minute") the better.
Things may improve in the future with the new devices (larger screens, move to Qt), but after the half-assed job Nokia did with the N900 (e.g., that Ovi Store clusterfuck, no native host mode for the USB port, keyboard would've neeeded another row, ...) I'll think twice before buying one of their devices again. And that's coming from someone who has been buying Nokia devices since the mid-90's (the 7710 was a true godsend).
Actually one of the disadvantages of the N900 is that it's too small (screen & keyboard).
Whenever I have to use some form of public transport I usually take my 5" Archos Android tablet with me too, since its larger screen is more comfortable. And it doesn't hurt that Android offers far more apps than Maemo.
OTOH writing your own Android apps can be a pain in the ass, since they did such a half-assed job with the debugging capabilities of the SDK's emulator. But that's something for a different topic.
The rule of setting the worst-case damages at three times the purchase costs would be pretty reasonable for your everyday private user.
Take the average torrent leecher as an example:
- The user has downloaded it once and uploaded pieces at the same time.
- For the sake of the argument let's assume that he took it from a tracker that requires you to upload as much as you download.
- Now the damages would be at twice the purchase costs
- Since some torrents are requested more than others and hence the upload ratio varies between 0.001 and (not often) over 1 in the time it took you to download the data, just lock it at three times the purchase costs and you're set.
Hell, if the BSA catches a company using pirated software they often just require them to buy the licenses retroactively plus a 0-100% premium.
If you try to criticize someone on the topic at least read TFA before you do.
The editor took the original article, made some half-assed changes and then had the gall to suggest that if anything the original author should pay them for what she did after she took the original text and that it's the author who should be grateful that she didn't credit someone else as the author on top of that.
Such impudence is more akin to the thinking behind Hollywood Accounting.
It's alright if the copyright infringement is committed by a media company?
They'll sing a different tune once the first Chestbursters show up.
Only video?
Depends on your field of work. There are many web-based monitoring applications which use Flash to display graphs (moves the burden of transforming values into graphics to the client, freeing up server resources in the process).
I'll believe that once I see it with my own eyes.
In the past I've encountered several cases where IE had problems with correctly-written scripts in Microsoft's Javascript dialect. To me it was just a case of consistency. If they ignore other people's standards then why should they comply with their own ones?
Too late. 4chan has already been mentioned in the first post.
There's infinite money to be made in selling air! Our profit margins are infinite! etc. This is what people tell themselves. And then comes the reality.
Perri-Air?
Been there, done that.
Kids usually just had an adult buy the games or simply got a pirated version.
In the best case the regulations were rendered useless (only wasting time & money) and in the worst the game companies didn't get paid.
Of course in Germany the games were screened by representatives from the catholic and lutheran churches, psychologists and other education "experts". In other words, senile old farts and other people so far removed from reality (and games in particular) it's not even funny.
Saw the same thing over at Geekologie a couple of days ago.
What surprised me more is how out-of-place the large pic at http://planet-flipside.com/index.php/paranormallink/60-timetraveller looks (lower right corner, next to the old guy).
Not just that. Every developer has his own style. And if the solution to a problem is complex enough that style tends to show.
Does it stop there or have some different implementations been written by the same developers, leading to the same approach both times? Happened on several occasions in case of Unix/Linux.
No UN ban will hold up to all the lobbyist money involved in this.