More than likely, it will be publishers who try it, not MS or Sony directly. EA or some other douchebag will start putting it on their games, and MS and Sony will try to blame it all on them (as if they couldn't have expressly forbade it as part of their approval process).
You would be surprised at the number of people who buy and sell used console games. They're most certainly not pirates and they're playing by the rules. It's just that MS (and possible Sony) are trying to CHANGE the rules.
You obviously don't have to work with anything on the web, because the pain inflicted by Microsoft on the countless web developers over the years is still fresh and ongoing for many.
Uh, I've been doing web development since before IE (and even Netscape) existed, and I don't know wtf you're talking about. When IE came out, I added it as a test platform just like Netscape. As it got more popular, I targeted it more (same as I've done with iOS Safari in recent years). The only people I've ever seen tearing any hair out over a new browser were fucking drama queens who refused to adapt, or thought that standards should be a license for laziness.
Why are you wasting time posting responses here, then? Shouldn't you be packing your bags? I mean, here's the chance to finally live out your libertarian dreams, and all you can do about it is post on Slashdot? Go east, young man!
I get a funny picture in my head every time I think of the guy who must run MS's Public Relations division. I'm picturing a cross between Dustin Hoffman's character in "Rain Man," Leonardo DeCaprio's character in "What's eating Gilbert Grape," and a doorstop. And a dumb doorstop at that.
At this point, that's unclear. It appears that both Sony and MS will be allowing *publishers* to decide the level of DRM on their products, though Sony has definitely taken a more hostile public stand against it. What this will all mean in the end we won't know until the actual games start coming out. "The proof is in the pudding," so to speak. I'm taking a wait-and-see approach with both of them for now.
I'm not pre-ordering either this time. I still don't trust Sony and MS has been a complete foot-in-mouth bunch of jackasses on the Xbox One. In the previous two generations, I pre-ordered the Xbox 360 and Xbox1. This generation, I'm waiting to see which console maker with be the biggest ass-clown of the two (a role that MS is competing VERY hard for so far) before I decide.
The pirates have even formed their own inventment organisations
They'll also cut your throat and rape your wife to death if they sense for even a second that you have anything they want. Truly a libertarian paradise!
Usually Somalia is the punchline of some attempt to troll a libertarian, but if you actually look at what's happening there, it's quite fascinating.
I imagine it's somewhat less fascinating when you have to live there. But if you truly want to experience the libertarian dream, it's definitely the place to be. If you're interested, I hear that you can buy a house there pretty cheap--if you can defend it from the gangs and keep it, that is. You may want to bring an arsenal and private army with you when you go. But, on the upside, no taxes!
"Outnumbering the Dead," one of the best science fiction novellas I ever read. But the guy had so many greats. He was one of the greatest modern serious science fiction writers ever, and active almost right up until the end. I don't think he ever had a slump.
It's been my experience that the vast majority of textbooks are chosen by how much money the textbook company is willing to donate to whomever gets to choose the textbooks, not by their inclusion or exclusion of any particular political position.
I think it's time to accept the harsh reality that the era of manned space travel is pretty much over. It was a nice, brief blip in modern history--fueled by the politics of the Cold War. But it's been in decline since the early 70's, and with the end of the Cold War in the early 90's, the writing was on the wall. A few more countries will send men up as a point of national pride (like China), and the ISS and Russian manned program will limp along for a little while longer. But we're never going back to the way it was.
Accepting shit from Starz when all the other studios were giving them quality was only worthwhile when Netflix was so desperate for streaming content that they would take anything. And apparently Netflix agrees, since they told Starz to get lost as soon as they started to build a decent library.
It used to be that way on Netflix-streaming when you saw a Starz logo at the beginning of the movie. It meant a non-HD, non-anamorphic, low-resolution, shitty-print movie. I dreaded seeing it. I was so glad when Starz left Netflix. A lot of other people saw it as a bad sign at the time, but to me it was "Good riddance, assholes--and don't let the door hit the ass of your awful quality videos on the way out!"
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More than likely, it will be publishers who try it, not MS or Sony directly. EA or some other douchebag will start putting it on their games, and MS and Sony will try to blame it all on them (as if they couldn't have expressly forbade it as part of their approval process).
You would be surprised at the number of people who buy and sell used console games. They're most certainly not pirates and they're playing by the rules. It's just that MS (and possible Sony) are trying to CHANGE the rules.
You obviously don't have to work with anything on the web, because the pain inflicted by Microsoft on the countless web developers over the years is still fresh and ongoing for many.
Uh, I've been doing web development since before IE (and even Netscape) existed, and I don't know wtf you're talking about. When IE came out, I added it as a test platform just like Netscape. As it got more popular, I targeted it more (same as I've done with iOS Safari in recent years). The only people I've ever seen tearing any hair out over a new browser were fucking drama queens who refused to adapt, or thought that standards should be a license for laziness.
Why are you wasting time posting responses here, then? Shouldn't you be packing your bags? I mean, here's the chance to finally live out your libertarian dreams, and all you can do about it is post on Slashdot? Go east, young man!
Good point. A true libertarian would say it's your own fault for not being rich enough to afford a private army to protect you.
I get a funny picture in my head every time I think of the guy who must run MS's Public Relations division. I'm picturing a cross between Dustin Hoffman's character in "Rain Man," Leonardo DeCaprio's character in "What's eating Gilbert Grape," and a doorstop. And a dumb doorstop at that.
PS4 has less DRM
At this point, that's unclear. It appears that both Sony and MS will be allowing *publishers* to decide the level of DRM on their products, though Sony has definitely taken a more hostile public stand against it. What this will all mean in the end we won't know until the actual games start coming out. "The proof is in the pudding," so to speak. I'm taking a wait-and-see approach with both of them for now.
I'm not pre-ordering either this time. I still don't trust Sony and MS has been a complete foot-in-mouth bunch of jackasses on the Xbox One. In the previous two generations, I pre-ordered the Xbox 360 and Xbox1. This generation, I'm waiting to see which console maker with be the biggest ass-clown of the two (a role that MS is competing VERY hard for so far) before I decide.
The pirates have even formed their own inventment organisations
They'll also cut your throat and rape your wife to death if they sense for even a second that you have anything they want. Truly a libertarian paradise!
Usually Somalia is the punchline of some attempt to troll a libertarian, but if you actually look at what's happening there, it's quite fascinating.
I imagine it's somewhat less fascinating when you have to live there. But if you truly want to experience the libertarian dream, it's definitely the place to be. If you're interested, I hear that you can buy a house there pretty cheap--if you can defend it from the gangs and keep it, that is. You may want to bring an arsenal and private army with you when you go. But, on the upside, no taxes!
Now we just need to find a way to get the $20,000 for solar panel installation to each of these dirt poor people, and then the problem is solved.
No, since WWII the U.S. has generously footed the bill for all their protection. Why do you think they have money to blow on shit like this?
they were sacrificing everything else in their country to pay for the military
Sounds familiar.
What makes you think they won't just take everyone else's food, money, and water?
"Outnumbering the Dead," one of the best science fiction novellas I ever read. But the guy had so many greats. He was one of the greatest modern serious science fiction writers ever, and active almost right up until the end. I don't think he ever had a slump.
No, but it does have a very positive effect on how much the school receives in state/federal grant money and donations from Apple.
It's been my experience that the vast majority of textbooks are chosen by how much money the textbook company is willing to donate to whomever gets to choose the textbooks, not by their inclusion or exclusion of any particular political position.
I think it's time to accept the harsh reality that the era of manned space travel is pretty much over. It was a nice, brief blip in modern history--fueled by the politics of the Cold War. But it's been in decline since the early 70's, and with the end of the Cold War in the early 90's, the writing was on the wall. A few more countries will send men up as a point of national pride (like China), and the ISS and Russian manned program will limp along for a little while longer. But we're never going back to the way it was.
And fusion's just 50 years away, now, right?
Neil deGrasse Tyson was mostly right. Private companies aren't going to do big, ambitious projects or manned missions without the government(s).
It defines Slashdot as a "worthless, inhospitable time sink."
Accepting shit from Starz when all the other studios were giving them quality was only worthwhile when Netflix was so desperate for streaming content that they would take anything. And apparently Netflix agrees, since they told Starz to get lost as soon as they started to build a decent library.
They should legally be forced to remove the "arts" part from their name. I don't consider "douchebaggery" an art-form.
It used to be that way on Netflix-streaming when you saw a Starz logo at the beginning of the movie. It meant a non-HD, non-anamorphic, low-resolution, shitty-print movie. I dreaded seeing it. I was so glad when Starz left Netflix. A lot of other people saw it as a bad sign at the time, but to me it was "Good riddance, assholes--and don't let the door hit the ass of your awful quality videos on the way out!"
Well, there goes all the love and goodwill that EA has built up over lo' these many decades.