Wow, I feel like I'm the only person here who is actually positively excited by this move by Blizzard to cut down on multiplayer cheating.
Maybe that's because it's a spazz-move
Instead of securing their servers (you know, the ones they insist on controlling), and having an untrusted client, they trusted the client, got boned, and now they're playing catchup and stamping on a handful of authors of the cracks that they do know about.
If that makes you feel better, well, bully for you. Just try not to think about all the unpatched exploits in their servers that wiil continue to be abused by the cracks that you and they don't know about.
You either design out the opportunity to cheat, or you enter an arse kicking contest against a monster with sixteen legs and no arse. There really is no middle ground.
We can't say for sure if Mr Zuckerberg did or didn't say that, but [...] excuse me, I misspoke. I meant that we are 100% absolutely sure that he didn't, and we can and will prove it in court.
And if the government employed people to read the future in chicken entrails (and they might as well do that) then they would still enjoy the right to tell them what public pronouncements they can make as part of their government funded job, if they want to keep it.
Don't like your employer? Find a better one. Can't find a better one? Then find a different job - you have no Intelligent Designed right to make a living from the public purse.
I ask because the obvious interpretation, that it's a copyright claim, might not be so black and white.
The claim appears to be that the software was reverse engineered and then modified, which would make the resultant system a derivative work with significant transformation. As anyone who's actually reverse engineered a non-trivial binary will tell you, whatever you get to compile in the end will pretty much be an "influenced by" ground up re-write.
And since copyright only covers the particular expression of an idea, not the idea itself, this might turn into a pretty entertaining bun fight.
When someone trips over their own bootlaces, it's polite not to kick them in the balls while they're down. That's a fairly depressing cast list. Cutting Beorn for some Arwen knock-off knock-off? Urgh. And what's this?
[ELF WARRIOR] An ELF-LORD of RIVENDELL.
I'm beginning to think that there's some Goddamn conspiracy to keep Glorfindel out of theatrical versions.
Hang on, I'll be back later - there are some damn kids on my lawn, playing their hoppity hip music too loud.
Counter-point one: the Japanese people are basically Klingons - they hate and despise everyone else, and will have no problems in tilting the playing field in favour of the Homeland. Japanese studios would rather lose 100 US subscribers due to unplayable than one domestic one due to being pwned by gaijin scum, not because it makes financial sense, but just because we are Klingons.
Counter-point two: the PC release is just a beta for the PS3 version. There are six PCs in the whole of Japan, and five of them are used exclusively for hentai. Nothing that happens on PC matters. I doubt they'll even support the PC after the PS3 version ships.
Counter point three: the players who matter have no expectations, beyond being able to dick around with midget cat rabbits, or whatever the hell those munchkins in FF are. The players who matter are all Japanese, although Wapanese are also welcome as long as they don't get uppity. Being insular is an implicit design goal, not a failure.
I never played FFXIV, but it sounds like they hired the developers of most korean MMORPGs to design and code their interfaces...
Bingo! Which also means that by the time the PS3 launch hits, 90% of the PC 'players' will be farmer bots. Heck, maybe that's their plan - outsource the AI to the h4xx0rz.
The size of their dickishnes is dwarfed by the magnitude of their stupidity. The guy is already a customer, but instead of trying to retain him, they (effectively) tell him to go fuck himself. It's bad business sense - retention is far cheaper than recruitment. Especially while your ex-customers are warning off potential ones.
Potential customer detected - eject him from the store, before he can has a chance to buy the products we have on offer at the price we decided to sell it at! Move, move, move!
Are these store owners fucking mental? Why not just hide all the books in a sack, demand the money up front, then hand one over at random? It makes about as much sense.
I can't see a studio putting money into it unless there's some bullshit female character retconned in. I mean, Peter, Petey, Petey baby, does Thorin really have to be a dude? We've already spoken to Salma Hayek's agent, man, she'd be perfect for Thorina, Warrior Princess.
Policies like these are products of fear and ignorance.
Fear, yes, but fear based on knowledge. The hardest task for software engineers in the real world is maintaining "clever" code lashed out and abandoned five years ago by some Goddamn wunderkind who then moved on to spamming the latest buzzkeywords over his next abandoned project.
Therefore they don't have "investors", they only have speculators.
The only way you can make money from Apple shares is by selling Apple shares. If you don't get the significance of that, let me put it another way: you always need new suckers to buy in to the scheme at higher prices.
If that sounds like a good long term "investment", then would you be interested in buying in to an exciting ground floor opportunity to market quality steak knives to other steak knife marketers?
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Maybe that's because it's a spazz-move
Instead of securing their servers (you know, the ones they insist on controlling), and having an untrusted client, they trusted the client, got boned, and now they're playing catchup and stamping on a handful of authors of the cracks that they do know about.
If that makes you feel better, well, bully for you. Just try not to think about all the unpatched exploits in their servers that wiil continue to be abused by the cracks that you and they don't know about.
You either design out the opportunity to cheat, or you enter an arse kicking contest against a monster with sixteen legs and no arse. There really is no middle ground.
But even more technically, they tended to act as graphics decelerators, so I guess I'll give the Voodoo a pass. It really was a game changer.
Reads like a lot of obvious consultant-wank generalities to me.
I don't care who this broad claims to be, she needs to either cite case examples, or go bake me some cookies.
Oh, client confidentiality. Well, that's convenient, ain't it? On the internets, nobody can prove you're not a 1337 security ninja.
Sufficient to stop there, I think. Can't say more. Lawyers have ears like bats. Fangs, too.
We can't say for sure if Mr Zuckerberg did or didn't say that, but [...] excuse me, I misspoke. I meant that we are 100% absolutely sure that he didn't, and we can and will prove it in court.
And if the government employed people to read the future in chicken entrails (and they might as well do that) then they would still enjoy the right to tell them what public pronouncements they can make as part of their government funded job, if they want to keep it.
Don't like your employer? Find a better one. Can't find a better one? Then find a different job - you have no Intelligent Designed right to make a living from the public purse.
If you're trying to perpetuate the stereotype that nerds don't wash, then congratulations, you win an internets.
Patents, trademarks, copyrights, contracts, trade secrets?
I ask because the obvious interpretation, that it's a copyright claim, might not be so black and white.
The claim appears to be that the software was reverse engineered and then modified, which would make the resultant system a derivative work with significant transformation. As anyone who's actually reverse engineered a non-trivial binary will tell you, whatever you get to compile in the end will pretty much be an "influenced by" ground up re-write.
And since copyright only covers the particular expression of an idea, not the idea itself, this might turn into a pretty entertaining bun fight.
Reminds me of Schwarzenegger going round schools telling kids not to use ze shderoids.
When someone trips over their own bootlaces, it's polite not to kick them in the balls while they're down. That's a fairly depressing cast list. Cutting Beorn for some Arwen knock-off knock-off? Urgh. And what's this?
I'm beginning to think that there's some Goddamn conspiracy to keep Glorfindel out of theatrical versions.
Hang on, I'll be back later - there are some damn kids on my lawn, playing their hoppity hip music too loud.
Counter-point one: the Japanese people are basically Klingons - they hate and despise everyone else, and will have no problems in tilting the playing field in favour of the Homeland. Japanese studios would rather lose 100 US subscribers due to unplayable than one domestic one due to being pwned by gaijin scum, not because it makes financial sense, but just because we are Klingons.
Counter-point two: the PC release is just a beta for the PS3 version. There are six PCs in the whole of Japan, and five of them are used exclusively for hentai. Nothing that happens on PC matters. I doubt they'll even support the PC after the PS3 version ships.
Counter point three: the players who matter have no expectations, beyond being able to dick around with midget cat rabbits, or whatever the hell those munchkins in FF are. The players who matter are all Japanese, although Wapanese are also welcome as long as they don't get uppity. Being insular is an implicit design goal, not a failure.
Bingo! Which also means that by the time the PS3 launch hits, 90% of the PC 'players' will be farmer bots. Heck, maybe that's their plan - outsource the AI to the h4xx0rz.
You appear to have just argued that Gamerankings rates too highly. If you had a point to make, I think you've just fallen on it.
The size of their dickishnes is dwarfed by the magnitude of their stupidity. The guy is already a customer, but instead of trying to retain him, they (effectively) tell him to go fuck himself. It's bad business sense - retention is far cheaper than recruitment. Especially while your ex-customers are warning off potential ones.
There is no different to the users between a bug and a flaw-by-design. The nomenclature is irrelevant.
Potential customer detected - eject him from the store, before he can has a chance to buy the products we have on offer at the price we decided to sell it at! Move, move, move!
Are these store owners fucking mental? Why not just hide all the books in a sack, demand the money up front, then hand one over at random? It makes about as much sense.
I can't see a studio putting money into it unless there's some bullshit female character retconned in. I mean, Peter, Petey, Petey baby, does Thorin really have to be a dude? We've already spoken to Salma Hayek's agent, man, she'd be perfect for Thorina, Warrior Princess.
You can watch Greedo missing from any angle!
Fear, yes, but fear based on knowledge. The hardest task for software engineers in the real world is maintaining "clever" code lashed out and abandoned five years ago by some Goddamn wunderkind who then moved on to spamming the latest buzzkeywords over his next abandoned project.
Now shush, grown ups are talking.
To be fair, Monsanto has changed recently: wearing SS uniforms in the lab is no longer strictly mandatory.
If 50% of your office are temperamental idiots, then your problems go deeper than how much you're paying for their word processors.
You can use diamonds to buy youself some fly hos. Also, you can coat drill bits and such with them, once you have enough hos.
As long as the shareholders get their money back, or some of their money back...
As long as the board get their money back, or some of their money back...
But they won't though. Only the lawyers ever win.
Therefore they don't have "investors", they only have speculators.
The only way you can make money from Apple shares is by selling Apple shares. If you don't get the significance of that, let me put it another way: you always need new suckers to buy in to the scheme at higher prices.
If that sounds like a good long term "investment", then would you be interested in buying in to an exciting ground floor opportunity to market quality steak knives to other steak knife marketers?
Where does "Spout obvious generalities in bullet points" fit into your list of bullet points? Powerpoint can fix anything!